Show NEW BILL ON HORTICULTURE Cailis Cals for Appropriation and a Board of Five Members Seven new nen bills bis and a house joint memorial were Introduced by consent In the house yesterday House bill bi No Xo 75 15 was offered by the committee on agriculture and anti horticulture It I dis displaces displaces displaces places a measure character and provides for or the creation creaton of a state board of horticulture for the compiling compiling ing and distribution of Its It reports the appointment of tf f Inspectors defining their duties dutes the duties or ot or nurserymen nur and common carriers carrier The bill bi carries carries an n appropriation of of ot which Is to be diverted from the treasury treasur this tiis year Jear and next year ear The new measure also repeals repels chapter 98 08 of the laws of Utah of 1905 1903 The board under the terms of the bill bi Is to consist of ot five members member one of whom shall be the director of ot the Utah Agricultural college experiment station staton and the tile other four are to be appointed by b the governor with wih the thc consent of the senate from the four horticultural districts district which are con eon constituted No 1 Box Elder Cache Rich Morgan and Weber eber No 2 Davis Salt Sal Lake Lle Tooele Summit and Wasatch No Q 3 Utah Juab Carbon Emery Emer San Juan Sanpete and Sevier No 4 Ilard Beaver Piute Plute Wayne a e Iron Irn Garfield Garfeld Kane and Washington I Its Is Political Complexion Not more than three thre of ot the governors appointees shall belong to one political party patt of ot shah be four years and until their successors have been appointed and qualified The member must be a resident of the dis district distrIct district from rom which he Is appointed and must mu t bj ha b qualified and a practical hor horticulturist The Th term of office begins thirty lays Jays after ater appointment The board hoard Is to have hae an office at the state statE capital and must elect a president and secretary from rein its It membership The Thi board la I I to meet semiannually or oft oftener of oftener ener If t deemed teemed expedient It H may ma hold Institutes ani and horticultural meetings In the various districts and shall issue bulletins for the guidance of horticulturists horticulturists generally For the service indicated each mem member mem member ber her is to receive annually annual except the te secretary who Is to 1200 Traveling expenses are also to be paid The Tho state treasury treasur is empowered to re receive gifts git and donations or bequests of money mone The board is vested with wih authority to enforce quarantines against any an infest ed fields felds or any place where the ar of contagious diseases injurious to fruit trees threatens It I may also prevent the Introduction of insect pests and ad fungus growths Within VI thin thirty days after the law goes into effect the county commissioners of each county shall appoint one horti horticultural hort cultural Inspector and as many man deputies deputes deputies ties tes as a is deemed necessary Inspectors are to hold office for two years and are areto areto areto to be bt paid out of ot the tho county treasuries at t a rate rats not to exceed U 4 a day deputies deputes deputies ties tes n 3 with wih reasonable r transportation expenses expenses Spraying with wih arsenical poi poison poison poison son while trees are in bloom Is prohibited Ie Inspection of orchards shall be made not loss less frequently than once a ayer year yer Provision is made for the re removal removal removal moval of dead trees if I the tha owner after being notified shall fall tal in this respect he lie shall be deemed deem d guilty gi of ot maintain maintainIng Ing a public nuisance Monthly reports report are to be made to the county Inspectors to the county boards and to the state secretary Every Ever person peron engaged engage in inthe Inthe inthe the business of selling fruit frit trees must l st first obtain a license at a cost cot of 25 2 per pet year The method of inspection is minutely defined and the regulations governing the importation of nursery stock etc ete dwelt upon at length lengh The Th state board boar is given authority to hold horticultural exhibitions and to arrange prizes and premiums Violations of the act shall be he classed a misdemeanor The bill bi was referred to the commit committee tee on agriculture and horticulture |