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rect mistakes made along this line in the early life of an 

 orchard or neighborhood practice. 



I remember that along early in my peach-growing years, 

 N. S. Piatt and myself paid a visit to one of the pioneer 

 commercial growers. I had yellows in my orchard and was 

 alarmed at its ravages. He seemed to have plenty in his 

 also, and seemingly did not fear it or contemplate fighting 

 it. I decided to fight the trouble, pulling out by the roots 

 a large per cent of trees. This old orchard of mine last 

 season surrendered its last trees, planted in 1880 or 1881. 

 As to the neighborhood visited, I have been told that a 

 passive policy prevailed and that in successive plantings 

 the trees seemed attacked at an earlier age, until finally 

 many showed the disease before producing their first crop of 

 fruit. I believe that a locality may become so seeded with 

 this disease that it is folly to plant there until after an in- 

 terval of the absence of all peach trees. 



In our own orchards we have endeavored to apply the 

 principle involved in the repealed law right along — 

 before its enactment, while it existed and since its repeal. 

 While taking out cases of yellows as thoroughly as we 

 know how means, in some seasons, the loss of a good many 

 trees, still we have found our yield of fruit increasing, in a 

 full fruit-crop year, up to the present time, although we do 

 not, on account of losses from several causes, expect that 

 our old orchards will again, at present, produce as largely 

 as they have done. Now do not misunderstand my state- 

 ment : We have bad cases of yellows to remove every year, 

 but the horse does not seem to have taken the bits in his 

 mouth and run away with us. 



A young hundred-acre orchard that we have may per- 

 haps, like many others, be subject to adverse conditions 

 that may follow from the repeal of the yellows law, on the 

 non-application of the principle involved. Within half a 

 mile of this orchard is the remains of an older one, the 

 owners of which but partially complied with the law when 

 in existence ; at the last inspection neither the cards or 

 trees were apparently removed. Within this same distance 

 another small orchard exists, the owners of which are anx- 

 ious to remove all cases of yellows, so far as they can find 



