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James Gardiner: I have seen at this meeting one man who shipped yellows 

 peaches knowing them to be such; and very likely we shall hear from him 

 how to prevent spread of yellows I 



S. M, Hamlin: I know of a man who propagated good trees by buds from 

 a tree that had yellows the next season, proving that a tree will show yellows 

 very quickly after inoculation. 



J. F. Taylor: The poorer soils show the least yellows; the promotion of 

 great growth seems to induce the disease; but we may detect yellows quicker 

 in well kept than in neglected orchards, unless when the latter are in fruit. 

 An old yellows orchard stood several years at Swan Creek, in Pineplains, and 

 I have frequently seen yellows trees in Allegan village. It is such neglect 

 that kills our orchards. 



Robert Eeid: I lost 500 trees by pure neglect. I could not destroy a nice 

 Crawford tree that was bearing 40 or 50 baskets of fruit with only one peach 

 or one limb showing yellows. I simply cut that off. But the next year that 

 whole tree had yellows, as did others about it. The next year yellows appeared 

 in my other orchard, and then I had learned to take the diseased trees out at 

 once ; but I hauled them through the orchard and spread the disease that 

 way. I now put lime about my trees and have faith in it as a preventive. 



J. H. Wetmore related his experience. Yellows appeared first in one tree 

 in one corner of his orchard, on a sandy knoll, the next year in the extreme 

 opposite corner on heavy soil, in only one tree also. He next saw it some 

 years later and he had to take out his whole plat; but just preceding this 

 outbreak of the disease, his man had plowed the orchard seven inches deep, 

 doing extensive damage to the roots. Commissioners had marked trees in 

 his orchard whose only ailment was grubs and severe winters. Mr. Wetmore 

 is a disbeliever in the contagion theory, but he always takes out the diseased 

 trees promptly. 



0. Beebe: Examinations with the microscope have shown that no bacteria 

 are in the roots the first year of yellows. 



A. C. Merritt: I have proved in my own experience that new trees may be 

 successfully raised where diseased trees have been uprooted. 



TRAINING TREES AND THINNING FRUIT. ^ 



Mr. Wm. Corner, of Ganges, appointed to lead on this topic, said: Many 

 years ago, when this was a very new country, I first came into it and began a 

 clearing. I will always recollect the trip I soon afterward made to the home 

 of Levi Loomis. He brought into the room for my regalement, a pan of big 

 yellow peaches, and I was so delighted with them that I determined to raise 

 such if 1 could ; and I went into my cabin soon afterward and began peach 

 culture. I said to some neighbors, about this time, that this lake shore was 

 peculiarly adapted to fruit raising, and particularly to production of the 

 peach. They laughed at me. But now, behold ! Look on the other side 

 than that of yellows. There is no place on earth where the peach flourishes 

 better. 



Lately I saw at Fennville a man who had received a lot of peach trees. 

 He had them lying open and dry upon the rack of his wagon. I do not do 

 so. When I receive my new trees I cover them as carefully as I would a baby. 

 I get them in the fall and put tiiem into a treucli, laid down, but not covered 

 far up their trunks, as doing so makes them tender, and they come 



