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He knows the appearance of the trees on every different piece 

 of land, soil type and exposure and keenly recog-nizes and 

 watches anv change of symptoms which could be attributed to 

 the yellows. On the other hand, it is absolutely necessary, to 

 secure good work in a community, to have official inspectors. 

 The reason for this is that many growers, although constantly 

 in the presence of this disease, do not learn to recognize it in 

 its early stages, especially when the trees are not in fruit. 

 Furthermore, there are a good many trees in gardens or by 

 the roadsides or otherwise out of commercial peach orchards 

 that would receive no attention. To secure proper uniformity. 

 therefore, some sort of an official inspector, whether he be 

 paid by the State, County or Township, should be employed. 

 The smaller the unit, the better. The less territory an official 

 inspector must cover, the more thoroughly he can be expected 

 to accomplish his work. As a matter of fact only a few or- 

 chardists in my experience have ever done strictly first-class 

 work in eradicating the yellows. Many orchards, otherwise 

 well cared for by progressive and enterprising growers, are 

 still somewhat neglected in this regard and it is a question in 

 my mind whether the recent outbreak in Connecticut cannot 

 be to some extent attributed to carelessness on the part of the 

 growers. I have been through the State nearly every summer 

 for the last four years and have been surprised to see the yel- 

 lows so commonly scattered about. In fact, I made a remark 

 to a gentleman in the summer of 1904 that the indifference 

 shown the yellows might get them into trouble. 



Disposal of the Dead Trees. A word in conclusion as 

 to what to do with the yellows trees after they are found. The 

 main thing, of course, is to find the diseased trees, but when 

 they are found, with our present lack of knowledge about the 

 disease, we feel that the only safe way is to dig the tree up or 

 pull it up with horses and destroy it by burning. Perhaps the 

 very safest way of all is to bring dry wood into the orchard 

 and burn the tree in the spot, or in the center of the colony, 

 if there are several trees, without dragging it out. As a mat- 

 ter of fact, however, there has been so little unsatisfactory 



