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Show IDAHO'S HORTICULTURAL LAW. Perhaps the most stringent law against selling fruits infested with injurious in-jurious insects or diseases is the amendment which has been adopted in Idaho, and which has- received the signature of the governor. This amendment is intended to strengthen existing laws in preventing the sale and distribution of infested and diseased dis-eased fruit. The s ction which has been amended now reads as follows: "It shall be unlawful to sell or dispose dis-pose of, or offer to sell or dispose of, or to have in one's possession for sale or barter, any fruit which is or has been infc3tcd with San Jose scale or the larva or larvae of the codling moth and the fact that such fruit bears the marks of the San Jose scale, or is worm eaten by the larva or larvae lar-vae of the codling moth shall be deemed conclusive evidence that said fruit is infested1 within the meaning of this section; and the state inspector inspec-tor and the several deputy inspectors arc hereby given power to seize and destroy such infested fruit whenever they shall find that the same has been packed, sold, shipped or offered for sale, or where the same has been exposed ex-posed for salc or is being held in' any warehouse, store, salesroom, or other place for the purpose of being sold, bartered, shipped' or exposed for sale or barter; and it is hereby made the duty of said state inspector and said district inspectors to enforce the provisions pro-visions of this section, and any person per-son or persons who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by 1 fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than .three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment im-prisonment in the county jail of not more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Provided Pro-vided that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the utilization of such infested fruit in the manufacture manufac-ture of fruit by-products where said fruit has not been packed, sold, shipped, ship-ped, stored, or offered or exposed for sale as fruit." The Fruit Grower. T r |
