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Susquehanna, Mrs. Brett, Foster and Wheatland are very fine, but their 

 yield is so light. I know of nothing I would rather risk than Bonanza. 

 It is a good deal like the Ben Davis is among the apples. It always 

 has a crop if anything does, and yields heavily. It is a late, white free- 

 stone and one that stands handling and shipping. The trees have a 

 tendency to overbear, and unless thinned they are small. But this is 

 an objection that is easily remedied. 



In one very important respect we have the advantage over our 

 brother fruit-growers in Delaware, New York and Michigan. I refer 

 now to our immunity from the diseases known as peach yellows and 

 peach rosette. These are two of the most fatal diseases with which 

 the fruit grower has to contend, and while so far as we are aware they 

 have never yet been found inside our borders it is not unlikely that 

 they will at some time make their appearance. The yellows have never 

 yet been reported west of the Mississippi by the department at Wash- 

 ington, but the rosette is known in Kansas, and also in Arkansas, and 

 where they once get established they have never succeeded in stamp- 

 ing them out, and there is no cure for affected trees. The only thing- 

 that can be done is to cut the trees down and burn them, and in this 

 way only can they be kept in check. We don't believe in crossing 

 bridges before we get to them, but we who live in this part of the 

 State do want a law placed upon our statute book similar to the ones 

 in force in Pennsylvania and Michigan and other states looking toward 

 the control of these diseases. Under the present condition of things 

 a half dozen fruit-growers in one neighborhood might use all the pre- 

 cautions possible to protect their orchards against diseases and insect 

 enemies, while one neglected his, thereby setting at naught all that had 

 been done for mutaal protection and working an injustice upon the 

 community, the county and the whole State. 



We trust this subject will be discussed and taken up in our local 

 societies, and that as soon as practicable we may have a statute that 

 may be of service to us in building up and maintaing the reputation of 

 the Ozark peaches until this becomes the most famous peach region in 

 America. E. L. Pollard, Olden. 



Hardy Peaches. 



As we are now on the southern slope of the Ozarks, in a land 

 that is renowned for its fine peaches, and, being one and all directly or 

 indirectly interested in their fruiting, the subject of hardy peaches and 

 how we can produce them might be considered and discussed by the 

 members of this association to advantage. 



