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because of little peach to be about one and one-seventh of one 

 per cent. .and because of yellows, two-fifths of one per cent., 

 out of a total of 42,380 trees. Eradication tests have been 

 started by two of the New York State inspectors, one near 

 Olcott, Niagara County, which is affected with the little peach 

 and yellows similar to the Youngstown area, and another in 

 the Warwick or Pine Island district of Southern New York. 

 by Percy L. Husted. The latter is the only instance I have 

 heard of which has not been entirely satisfactory to the men 

 concerned. In general it may be stated that from the eradica- 

 tion tests where careful records have been made over a con- 

 siderable area and from the experience of the best worked or- 

 chards, of which there are a large number in Michigan, and a 

 good many in New York, it is considered that when ordinary 

 conditions obtain, the annual loss from the yellows should be 

 reduced to less than one per cent, per annum, where prompt 

 and careful eradication is done. Whether this result can be 

 secured in the face of such a vicious outbreak as we have in 

 this State at the present time is a c^uestion. There is certainly 

 abundant evidence to show that careful and prompt removal 

 of afifected trees has in the great majority of cases resulted 

 in very satisfactory and economical and effective control of 

 this disease. Much of these orchard experiments where care- 

 ful eradication has been carried on has been in districts af- 

 fected by the yellows where neighboring orchards, less care- 

 fully handled, with little or no inspection, have been destroyed 

 by the disease. Evidence of this kind could be given at length, 

 but doubtless you are all ready to accept this statement. 



It is a question as to whether yellows would get beyond 

 control and do as much damage as it has done in Connecticut 

 this year if it were really carefully eradicated. As a matter 

 of fact, most of the eradication has been rather carelessly done. 

 It is even surprising that as good results have been secured 

 along this line. 



What is Good Eradication F We have always consid- 

 ered that three annual inspections, when properly made at the 

 right time, were sufficient for finding the affected trees. It 

 need hardly be mentioned that the important thing about this 



