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ence in Connecticut does not make me want to put health}' trees 

 where those affected with the yellows have been taken out." 



A Member: "I did it last spring on land where I had re- 

 moved all the trees that were affected." 



Professor Gulley: "I don't believe in Mr. Hale's theor}-. 

 We have them right in the spot where we pulled sick trees out." 



Mr. Collingwood: "I would like to ask what Mr. Hale's 

 experience has been?" 



Mr. Hale: "Some eight or nine years ago we had a field 

 of nearly an acre that was badly infested with the yellows. 

 The trees were eight or nine years old. While they were not 

 all infested with the yellows, and a considerable over half of 

 them were thrifty, I pulled up the whole field. After the fruit 

 crop was off in September 1 plowed the ground, and early in 

 December the same field was cross-plowed. I was in Georgia 

 during December and January, but came home, and I looked at 

 it, and I said ' I guess we can plow that field again.' It was 

 plowed the third time in January. In the spring it was plowed 

 and harrowed or bushed, and as it was right in a spot that I 

 wanted to utilize, and as Professor Gulley's doctrine had been 

 preached by some people, I thought I would try it. I brought 

 from the south a lot of peach trees which were grown there, and 

 which were supposed to be healthy, and we took two thousand 

 of them and planted them on new land, and we took enough to 

 set this small block of about two hundred trees, and set it out 

 again. They grew well, but by the middle of August there was 

 plain evidence that something was the matter, and by October 

 the sprout was plainly to be seen, and a gentleman who came to 

 visit us, who was an expert in such matters, pronounced it a 

 plain case of the yellows. The trees we set on the new land 

 have never shown it yet. That convinced me, from that experi- 

 ment, so that I do not want to plant any more on ground where 

 the trees on it have had the yellows." 



Professor M. B. Waite: "I have seen peach trees in pre- 

 cisely the way that Mr. Hale describes, but the trouble was 

 something else, not the yellows. The only absolutely positive 

 proof of the yellows is premature spotted fruit." 



Mr. Hale: "Now, gentlemen, don't you believe him. If 

 you do you will get into trouble." 



