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passed, and in many cases not more than a day or so elapsed, without my being 

 in some of the orchards, thus giving me an opportunity to personally observe 

 the development of the yellows throughout the fruiting season. 



In a book procured for the purpose, which I design to leave with the society, 

 I have set down the names of owners, number of trees in their orchards, and 

 the number affected with the yellows. There are some 250 of these places 

 which I have examined and counted the trees, except in those places where the 

 owners could give tliem. 



August 1st, 1879, I found the percentage of loss to be 2 per cent. At the 

 close of the season I found the total number of trees in orchards examined 

 62,856; of these 2,245 sliowed yellows in its various stages, giving 3.56 per 

 cent, of loss for the season. By reference to my book, it will be observed that 

 many of tlie places examined are gardens and small places witliin the corpora- 

 tion, and that these show a much larger percentage of loss than those outside. 

 Taking what may properly be called our orchards, the figures will probably 

 show the loss to be about 3 per cent. 



It is also proper to state, what most of you are aware, that many of the af- 

 fected trees were condemned and marked last year, but not removed ; also 

 many not marked either showed symptoms or were affected the previous year, 

 thus making it difficult to give the exact percentage for the present year. 



As a general thing joarties have been prompt in removing diseased trees, and 

 there seems to be a good feeling and a strong determination to take out and 

 destroy all trees affected. This work has been done so thoroughly the past year 

 that I think there will be very few trees remaining, so that another year we 

 will be able to obtain a very accurate percentage of a year's loss. 



J. C. Gonld, of Paw Paw, a commissioner, had found but twelve new cases 

 for this year, and the per centage w^as less than five for all cases in his town- 

 ship (Antwerp), for two years. He thought there was too much red tape about 

 the law, but tiiey had managed to enforce it pretty well. He thought the dis- 

 ease was traveling eastward at tlie rate of about six miles per year. 



H. P. Waters, Lawton. — The fruit-growers of our section, as a rule, have an 

 eye for business, and kept that eye open to watch for the least sign of the yel- 

 lows, and as soon as it appears in a tree, that tree is taken out and destroyed, 

 root and brancli. "We started in the spring with the resolution to fight the 

 yellows 0)1 this line to the end, and I think we are gaining the victory. I took 

 out 28 trees in my own orchard a year ago, and only four this season in an 

 orchard of 5,000 trees. The four of this year were in tlie immediate vicinity 

 of those taken out last year. I could cite a dozen other examples in the 

 neighborhood quite similar in character. 



1 think if close watch is kept and all trees taken out as soon as the least 

 signs of the yellows are developed, we can raise peaches wit!i profit for the 

 market in our section for years to come. 



There has been taken out this last summer in the orchards about Lawton, 

 GO trees affected with the yellows. There have been ^sll complaints issued in the 

 township of Antwerp, comprising about 100 trees. There has been no serious 

 resistance to the law in this vicinity ; it works well. The most of the corn- 

 plaints that were issued were for seedling trees in neglected spots. I do not 

 think there was a complaint made out in our town>hip against a single fi'uit- 

 grower who was growing fruit for the market. As 1 said before, so soon as 

 there was a suspicion of the yellows our fruit-growers I'ooted out thuir trees. 



The hour having arrived at which it had been decided to resume the regular 

 programme, the president announced the topic as 



