48 SCALE INSECTS. 



OHIO.— Laws of 189G. 



An Act to prevent the spread of yellows, a contagious dise.ise among 

 peach, almond, apricot and nectarine trees, and to prevent the 

 spread of black-knot, a contagious disease among cherry, prune 

 and plum trees, or any other contagious disease of fruit-trees, 

 also the infection known as the San Jose scale, and to provide 

 measures for the eradication of the same. 



Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to keep, or 

 permit to be kept upon his premises or upon premises under his 

 charge or control, as owner or lessee or otherwise, any peach, almond, 

 apricot or nectarine tree infected with the contagious disease known 

 as yellows, or to keep any affected part of any cherry, plum or prune 

 tree infected with the contagious disease known as black-knot, which 

 affects one or more branches or any tree infested with San Jose scale 

 or any of the fruit from any tree infected with peach yellows, or to 

 sell or offer for sale, or to ship or permit to be shipped to any person 

 in any manner, any of said yellows fruit ; that both trees and fruits 

 so infected, except as aforesaid, shall be subject to destruction as 

 public nuisances as hereinafter provided, and it shall be the duty of 

 every person owning any fruit or having in their charge or under 

 their control any fruit from any of the said trees so infected or any 

 of such fruit so infected, except as aforesaid, and of every person 

 having any of said fruit-trees so infected in their charge or under 

 their control as owner, agent, lessee or otherwise, to immediately de- 

 stroy all trees so infected and all of said fruit so infected by burning 

 the same ; and whoever owning any of said fruit-trees so infected, or 

 whoever having any of the same in charge as agent, servant, em- 

 ployee or lessee or otherwise, shall fail or neglect to destroy all of 

 the same within 10 days after notice given to him by the township 

 board of fruit commissioners, hereinafter mentioned, of such in- 

 fected condition, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- 

 viction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding SlOO ; provided, 

 however, that in case of the black-knot in any fruit-tree, it shall be 

 sufficient to cut away and destroy only the limb or part of the tree 

 affected with black-knot, and destruction or the term destroy in this 

 act shall be construed to mean destruction by fire. It shall be suffi- 

 cient to extinguish the San Jose scale with effective insecticides. 



Sec. 2. It is further provided that any nurseryman, agent, dealer 

 or other person who shall sell or offer for sale, any fruit-trees for 

 planting that are affected with any contagious disease, or infested 

 with the pest known as the San Jose scale, or other obnoxious insect 

 pest, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be 

 fined not lees than $10 nor more than SlOO. Whenever the disease 



