No. 6. 



Philadelphia Agricultural Society. 



195 



Whenever blight has occurred, I know of 

 no remedy but tree and early cutting. In 

 some cases it will remove all diseased mat- 

 ter; in some, it will alleviate only: but in 

 bad blight, there is neither in this, nor in 

 any thing else that I am aware of, any 

 remedy. 



There are two additional subjects with 

 which I shall close this paper: 



1. This blight is not to be confounded 

 with lointer-killing. In the winter of either 

 1837 or 1838, in March a deep snow fell in 

 this region, and was immediately followed 

 by brilliant sun. Thousands of nursery trees 

 perished in consequence, but without put- 

 ting out leaves, or lingering. It is a famil- 

 iar fact to orchardists, that severe cold fol- 

 lowed by warm suns, produces a bursting of 

 the bark along the trunk; but usually at the 

 surface of the ground. 



2. I call the attention of cultivators to 

 the disease of the peach tree, called "The 

 Yellows." I have not spoken of it as the 

 same disease as the blight in the pear and 

 apple, only because I did not wish to em- 

 barrass this subject by too many issues. I 

 will only say that it is the opinion of the 

 most intelligent cultivators among us, that 

 the yellows are nothing but the devclope- 

 ment of the blight according to the peculiar 

 habits of the peach tree. I mention it that 

 observation may be directed to the facts. 



Henry W. Beecher. 



Philadelphia Agricultural Society— Re- 

 port, &c. 



At a stated meeting of the Philadelphia 



Society for promoting Agriculture, held on 



the 1st of January, the following gentlemen 



were elected officers for the ensuing year. 



Dr. James Mease, President. 



James Gowen, \ v P 



Kenderton Smith, \ 

 Aaron Clement, Rec. Secretary. 

 P. R. Freas, Assistant Rec. Sec. 

 Dr. a. L. Elwyn, Cor. Sec'ry. 



George Blight, Treasurer, 



In place of A. S. Roberts, declined. 



Isaac Newton, ) ^, 



o r^ x^ \ Curators. 



oamuel C roRD, ^ 



Aaron Clement, Librarian. 



The follov/ing Report was read and 

 adopted : 



To the Philadelphia Society for pro^noting 

 Agriculture. 



The committee appointed to inquire into 

 the existing laws to restrain gunners from 

 trespassing upon farms and destroying birds 



in the county of Philadelphia, respectfully 

 report : — 



That by the Act passed the 9th of April, 

 1760, section 6th, If any person or persons 

 shall presume to carry any gun, or hunt on 

 any enclosed or improved lands of any in- 

 habitant of this province, other than his 

 own, unless he shall have license or per- 

 mission from the owner of such lands, or 

 shall presume to fire a gun on or near any 

 of the king's highways, and shall be thereof 

 convicted, either upon view of any justice 

 of the peace within this province, or by the 

 oath or affirmation of any one or more wit- 

 nesses before any justice of the peace, he 

 shall for every such offence forfeit the sum 

 of forty shillings. 



The 8th section enacts. That if any person 

 shall hunt or kill any kind of game on the 

 sabbath-day, and shall be convicted thereof 

 in manner last aforesaid, every such offender 

 shall forfeit end pay the sum of forty shil- 

 lings for every such offence. 



By the Act "passed the 7th of March, 1821, 

 if any person or persons shall presume to hunt 

 on any improved or enclosed lands of any of 

 the inhabitants of the counties of Philadel- 

 phia or Delaware, unless he or they shall 

 have permission from the owner, occupier, or 

 tenant, of such lands, or shall presume to fire 

 a gun thereon, after being warned off by the 

 owner, or person in his employ, or shall wil- 

 fully commit any injury to the orchard, 

 garden, nursery, ground crops, vegetables, 

 plants, land, or other matter or thing, grow- 

 ing or being thereon, or to or upon real or 

 personal property of any nature or kind so- 

 ever, every person so offending being there- 

 of convicted, sliall be liable to a penalty not 

 exceeding ten dollars and the costs of con- 

 viction ; and in default of payment to be 

 committed to jail for any time not exceed- 

 ing ten days. 



The 2nd section enacts. That it shall be 

 lawful for any constable or constables of the 

 county of Philadelphia, to apprehend the 

 person or persons so offending within the 

 said county, and take him, or them, without 

 a warrant, before the nearest justice of the 

 peace within the township or district where 

 the oftcnce may have been committed, for 

 the purpose of being dealt with according 

 to the provisions of tlie first section of tliis 

 Act. The penalty to be for the use of the 

 poor of the township where the offence was 

 committed. 



By the Act passed April 11th, l'=44, it 

 shall not be lawful for any person in the 

 counties of Philadelphia, I.nzcrne, North- 

 ampton, Bucks, Lancaster and Daupliin, to 

 shoot, kill, or otherwise destroy, during the 

 months of March, April, May, June, July, 



