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_ instead of the certificate of the official entomologist of the State in which your nurs- 
ery is loeated. The certificate of this commission, together with 100 facsimile 
copies, will be issued without charge to each nurseryman, upon filing with this com- 
mission a certificate from the official entomologist of the State in which the nursery 
is located that said nursery was, within six months, personally examined by him, and 
the growing stock found free from San Jose scale, West Indian scale, black-knot, and 
other infectious pests, and apparently healthy in every respect. The certificates of 
this commission will bear date of April 1 or October 1, and will be good for only six 
months. It is not the purpose of this commission to interfere in any way with the 
sale of good nursery stock in the State. It is not believed that the rules and regu- 
lations of this commission will be found onerous to those who fully appreciate the 
necessity of protecting our herticultural interests. 
(Signed) ——————_, Chairman. 
OHIO. 
LAWS OF 1896. 
AN AcT to prevent the spread of yellows, a contagious disease 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 knowr as the San 
Jose seale, and to provide measures for the eradication of the same. 
SEcTION 1. That it shall be unlawfal for any person to keep, or permit to be kept 
upon his prem:ses 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 atiected part of any cherry, plum, or prune tree 
infected with the contagious disease known as black-knot, which atfects 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 ofier for sale, or to ship or permit to be ship- 
ped to any person in any manner, any of said yellows fruit; that both trees and 
fruits so infected, except as aforesaid, shail 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 irees so infected or any of such fruit so infected, except as aforesaid, and of 
every person haying any of said fruit trees so infected in their charge or under their 
control as owner, agent, lessee, or otherwise, to immediately destroy all trees soe 
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, employee, 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 infected condition, shall be guilty of 
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $100; 
provided, however, that in case of the black-knot in any fruit tree it shall be sutti- 
cient 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. 1t shall be sufficient 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 avy 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 less than $10 nor more than $100. Whenever the disease known as peach 
yellows, also black-knot of the plum, cherry, and prune are found to exist, not less 
han five freeholders in any township in Ohio may petition the township trustees to 
appoint a township board of fruit commissioners, recommending in said petition 
hree or more of the most competent and best qualified persons known in said town- 
ip for the position. It shall be the duty of the trustees to speedily appoint for the 
