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nor where it comes from, nor where it is going, but there is such a tiling 

 as starting with healthy trees and there is such a thing as starting with 

 diseased trees; and whether you start with healthy or diseased 

 ones, yellows is pretty likely to break out sooner or later, only it 

 will be later when you start right. You must first study yellows to 

 know what yellows is. Three quarters of the peach-growers in the 

 country know yellows in its advanced stages, about three years along, or 

 four years, but not before. We should learn what yellows is, when it 

 first shows itself, when the first sign of it is on your most thrifty and 

 most lusty and green trees in the whole orchard — that some one shoot, 

 perhaps in the center of the tree, usually the central top, is growing a 

 little stronger than the rest, setting its leaves a little more thickly than 

 the rest, and if you get it just in the right light you will see a little 

 wavy, crinkly leaf and a little shade of yellow running through where 

 it should be green. Yellows may be in the young tree, and be there 

 long before it shows anywhere else, and then is the time to take that 

 tree by the nape of the neck and pull it out of the ground and burn it; 

 and no matter if yellows goes right through the best part of your best 

 orchard — never hesitate, never stop a minute. If you do not discover 

 it until the trees have been bearing, and they are loaded full of large, 

 tine peaches, and there is but one peach on the entire tree that shows a 

 trace of the disease, do not wait to market those peaches and get two or 

 three dollars, but pull the tree right out before yon go to Sunday-school, if 

 jou find it Sunday morning; or if you have to stay home from church to do 

 it, you are doing God's good work. Get it out and burn it as soon as it 

 appears. A man who will not do that will not take front rank in peach- 

 growing in the future. The man who will, and follows it up and keeps 

 everlastingly at it, need not worry very much about yellows. You must 

 be happy and contented to see trees go, because you know that the 

 others that are left will be enough better. 



Borers must be treated in much the same way ; that is, they should have 

 close attention, and proper washing of the trees each spring must be done 

 -as soon as the mother-moth begins to fly that deposits the egg on the best 

 of the trees. A. wash of carbolic acid and lime, or any other adhesive 

 substance that will hold it to the tree, will keep off the moth. I have 

 used crude carbolic acid and some potash, because potash helps to smooth 

 it for the next year. If perchance a few borers get in, they should be 

 dug out once or twice per year, and it is not any great trick to run 

 over your orchard in the fall of the year, and dig where there is any trace 

 of a borer. In our Georgia orchards, where they have no seasons and 

 breed quite freely, we find it to advantage to go over the whole hundred 

 thousand trees twice each year, and where the trees are thoroughly and 

 well washed less than five per cent, will ever receive a borer. 



Peach rot, which is another one of the blessings that come to us, is 

 lield in check by spraying with Bordeaux mixture, and the best time 

 to spray is in the spring before the foliage is on, because peach foliage 

 Is pretty tender and it is risky to spray — not, of course, so much with 

 I>ordeaux as it is with arsenical sprays. One spraying in the spring, just 

 t)efore the buds swell on the tree, of Bordeaux mixture, and then with 

 $1 weaker solution two or three times during the growing season, up to 

 the time the peaches are one third grown, will prevent practically all of 



