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gence on the part of Connecticut orchardists. I suppose you 

 niay resent it, but I will give you my best opinion in the mat- 

 ter. It has been the experience repeatedly in communities 

 where they have become more and more careless and did not 

 realize the importance of looking after the few cases of this 

 disease — just like the small-pox in a town — that the only 

 remedy is- that of eradication. The disease cannot be com- 

 pletely wiped out in any other way. 



A Member : How do you explain that yellows is usually 

 worse on frozen trees? 



Prof. Waite : I don't think it is worse on frozen trees. 



Mr. Hale: The outbreak of yellows was just as bad in 

 Delaware, where the trees were not injured by freezing, and 

 the same is true in other sections. It goes right over the 

 frozen trees and where there is no freezing, perfectly sound, 

 healthy trees. No trees were injured seriously ; we had the 

 biggest crop in 1904 we had for years. 



Prof. Waite : I would like to discuss further the matter 

 of ridding the country of yellows. There is no remedy, as I 

 have said, but that of complete eradication. I should mention 

 that in New York State they have inspectors who have taken 

 areas of land to experiment on and have been carrying on the 

 eradication test in those areas. One of these areas is up in 

 the Lake Ontario belt and covers both little peach and yel- 

 lows and has been satisfactory. The other one is located in 

 southern Maryland, and there the results have not been satis- 

 factory to the inspector or the orchardists ; however, the in- 

 spection has been only once annually, while there should be at 

 least three annual inspections. It is necessary to make thret 

 inspections for first-class work, and sometimes double that 

 number is necessary. The question that is still open is 

 whether you can control the disease in the face of such an 

 outbreak without first losing the orchards. Mr. Hale raises 

 the point of the possibility of the Connecticut peach orchards 

 being entirely wiped out. That is not only a possibility but 

 also a great probability unless you do this act of complete 

 eradication. There is no use trying to dodge the issue. That 

 is what has been done in the Maryland peach belt in the 



