At the end of his paper Mr. Taylor continued speaking as follows: When there is 
a surplus, if the fruit is properly handled, it is very seldom the net returns would not be 
equal to one dollar a bushel--I am speaking of a very abundant year, Peaches are now 
being used through the country wherever they can be produced to an extent that justifies 
their production wherever there are facilities for their transportation. Rapid trans- 
portation is very desirable when the crop is large. When the crop is small of course 
the prices run high, as has been the case this year, two, three, four and five dollars per 
bushel according to quality and the condition in which the fruit was placed upon the 
market. But we do not regard $3 and $5 as standard prices, because it is only occa- 
sional years that we have not a sufficiently abundant crop to enable us to reduce the 
price below those figures. I have not written anything in regard to the yellows, not 
knowing whether you would care to hear anything about it. I have been asked by 
different members whether we have the yellows, and [ will just reply to that in a few 
words, and then I shall be very happy to answer any questions you may desire to ask. 
We have had the yellows. They commenced first in my place in 1877. I had two or 
three trees affected that year, and through not fully appreciating the disease at that 
time, and having my attention drawn away by other work, they were not cut until after 
the fruit had ripened. I had only about three hundred trees at that time, but the next 
year forty of them were affected. These trees were green and fresh in leaf as any orchard 
could possibly be, showing no change of color in the leaf or growth of the tree, but when ~ 
the time had nearly come for the fruit to ripen it showed that peculiar red that is 
familiar to everyone that has ever had any fruit affected by yellows. We cut out the 
forty trees, and the next year we had six, and since that year we have not found the 
yellows in our orchard at all, A neighbor of mine, in the year in which we cut forty, 
cut three hundred trees, and for several years past he has not had more than an occa- 
sional tree. That is the history of the disease in my immediate vicinity, in a district of 
country several miles wide and loeg. In other localities where, instead of cutting the 
trees, they persisted in trying by various means to doctor them, hoping to cure them of 
the disease, it continued to exist, and spread. Now the growers are so thoroughly con- 
vinced of the necessity of taking out every tree that shows sign of the yellows that there 
is no objection to that course at all, We have commissioners whose duty it is to see 
that affected trees are cut out. I was one of the commissioners for my township for six 
years, beginning with 1878, and so I made myself familiar with the spread of the disease 
in that locality, and with its curtailment from that time down to the present, and the 
young orchards in our vicinity for the last six or seven years «lo not show any symptoms 
of yellows at all. 
President Lyon.—What would you do in the case of a single peach on a tree show- 
ing symptoms, while the rest were sound ; would you simply cut away the branch ? 
Mr. Taytor.—lI have occasionally heard of cases where men saved the tree by cut- 
ting off the limb, but I have never found any such instance myself. I had an Early 
Orawford, one limb of which, about the size of a hoe handle, showed the disease, and [ 
was not willing to risk it and we took the tree out. I think there are few who will 
contend that the disease has not already taken hold of a tree that shows it on one peach 
this year sufficiently to develop it on a large part of the tree the next year. I have seen 
a man who had one limb or one side of a tree which forms principally in two branches 
affected by the disease, and it was cut off and the other side ripened healthy fruit, but 
next year the remaining side had the yellows just as badly as the first, and that experi- 
ence has been repeated so often within my personal knowledge that I would not risk one 
branch on a tree, even if it was not larger than a pipe-stem. Peach trees at the piesent 
time only cost a few cents, and it is better to put in a new tree than run any risk of the 
disease spreading in the orchard. 
The Secretary.—Do you think it can be carried by pruning tools? Is care neces- 
sary with regard to the use of the pruning knife ? 
Mr. Taytor.—That is one of the points that has been a great deal talked of, but I 
am not in possession of any certain knowledge either way, as to whether it is carried by 
