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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Law Concerning Peach Yellows. — In a recent number reference was 

 made to the uselessness of the present act regarding the destruction of black 

 knot and peach yellows, and that the Farmers Institute of Lincoln has resolved 

 to co-operate with the Canadian Institute in Toronto, in seeking some amend- 

 ments to the act which would make it more easily operated. 



Some special sections of the present Act are as follows : Revised Statutes for On- 

 tario for 1887, under Noxious Weeds, refers to the cutting down and burning of 

 peach or nectarine trees effected with yellows, or plum trees affected with black 

 knot. Section 3, div. 2, compels the council, on petition of fifty ratepayers, to 

 appoint an inspector, whose business it will be to enforce the provision of the 

 Act ; his remuneration to be fixed by said council for the performance of his 

 duties. In section 8, the inspector is to proceed to examine the fruit trees, providing 

 he receives written complaint that such disease exists in his municipality, and, if 

 satisfied that either black knot or [)each yellows is present, he is to give notice in 

 writing to the owner of the land, requiring him, within five days of the receipt of 

 the notice, to destroy the diseased trees. Section 10 deals with the penalties 

 made, which are not under $5, and not over $20, for not destroying the 

 affected trees, or for selling fruit so affected. It is quite evident that this legis- 

 ation is more permissive than compulsory, and not sufficiently stringent to avail 

 much in stamping out the disease. 



A resolution to be sent to the Attorney-General and the Honorable Minister 

 of Agriculture, calls the attention of the Government to this important question, 

 and asks for more stringent legislation enforcing the destruction of affected trees, 

 and for preventing the eale of diseased fruit, and regulating the appointment and 

 duties of inspectors. 



