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Bulletin 75. 



It should first be said that the yellows is generally spread 

 throughout the state. I have made a careful study of the peach 

 industry of western New York during the present season, and I 

 have run upon the yellows in almost every region which I have 

 visited. It is particularly bad in Niagara county, which is the 

 leading peach section of the state. It also occurs along the cen- 

 tral lakes, in the Hudson River val- 

 ley, and, no doubt, wherever peaches 

 are grown to any extent. Yet the 

 disease is not also so serious in cer- 

 tain regions as people have supposed 

 it to be. I have visited orchards 

 which were said to be dying with 

 yellows, and have found only borers 

 and that sublime neglect which 

 characterizes so many peach or- 

 chards of the state. Orchards which are 

 never cultivated or pruned or fertilized, 

 soon become sad-looking objects, making 

 little growth and that of a feeble and yel- 

 low sort, and the borers hold unmolested car- 

 nival. In such cases, the first remedial treat- 

 ment must be applied to the owner, for un- 

 profitable or diseased orchards cannot 

 cure themselves. 



Fruit growers should know that peach 

 yellows is a distinct disease, with char- 

 acteristic symptoms, that it attacks the 

 very best and strongest trees of the 

 orchards as well as the weak ones, and 

 that its end is always fatal. I have 

 sometimes thought that the most vigor- 

 ous trees are most liable to attack. It is 

 certain that orchards in otherwise prime 

 condition may be completely swept away with the yellows. 



The most lamentable circumstance connected with the yellows 

 in this state is the legal complication which arose in Niagara 

 County* in 1889, when an attempt was first made to enforce the 



2. Healthy tertninal shoot. 



* Annals of Hort. 18S9, 70. 



