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experience as to make this seem an extra precaution. Possibly 

 it might be advisable to pull the trees up and let them wilt or 

 dry out before removing from the orchard. At any rate, there 

 seems to be abundant evidence that a dead peach tree, though 

 it may have had the yellows, is not dangerous in transmitting 

 the disease. Never cut the tops ofif of yellows trees and leave 

 them standing. Such trees may still sprout out new growth, 

 and from the yellows standpoint are still in action. Kill the 

 tree, root and branch, at any rate. Many orchardists wish to 

 use their yellows peach trees for fuel, and while this is not 

 supposed to be absolutely safe, I have seen good results in 

 many cases where this was done. 



Summing up, therefore, I should say that if you wish to 

 be extra careful concerning infection, burn the tree at once, 

 but if the tree is promptly pulled up and allowed to dry, you 

 have probably done all that is possible in killing the disease. 



Above all, the best advice I can give you is to pull out 

 and destroy every peach tree in the State which shows the 

 slightest symptom of the yellows next season. If this is car- 

 ried out, especially if repeated for two or three seasons in 

 succession, all the previous history and experience connected 

 with this trouble points to success in bringing this malady 

 under control. New orchards can then be rapidly planted out 

 and the peach industry renewed under more favorable condi- 

 tions than ever. 



At the conclusion of Prof. Waite's very comprehensive 

 and instructive address the subject of "Peach Yellows" w:is 

 vigorously discussed. 



Discussion. 



Dk. Clinton : I notice in a recent newspaper article 

 that Mr. Hale reports that yellows has attacked the trees in 

 Georgia. 



Mr. J. H. Hale : You don't always want to believe what 

 you see in a newspaper. I never saw a case of yellows in 

 Georgia except, possibly, in the mountain region. 



I think so far as the commercial fruit growers of Con- 

 necticut a're concerned this subject under consideration is of 



