The Peach Yellows Law

One of the many valuable laws passed by the recent Kepublican legislature concerned the two contagious diseases, yellows and black knot which infect "peach, plum, cherry, prime, al. mond, apricot and nectarine trees." The former law was so drawn that it was impossible to reach diseased trees in villages and cities. The new law makes it compulsory for the owner of a tree with the yellows to totally destroy it. Commissioners are to be ap pointed in every city and village whose duty it shall be to see that all diseased trees are dealt with according to law They are to notify the owner as to what the case demands, and if he refuses to act promptly they may do the work for him and the owner is liable to afine of 100.