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clay subsoil. In moist seasons tin's soil yields from 40 to 00 bushels of 
shelled corn. Apples, plums, grapes, elms, neguudos, etc., also grow in 
it vigorously. The soil must contain plenty of lime, since horizontal, 
eroded ledges of limestone crop out everywhere on both sides of the 
Kansas valley for miles and miles. 
This orchard of choice budded fruit contained only about two hun¬ 
dred trees, but they had always been thrifty and well cared for. The 
older trees were 8 to 12 years old and had borne several good crops; 
the younger (about fifty replants) were 4 to G years old and had borne 
only one crop. 
Mr. Wells first noticed this disease in 1889. He says there were no 
cases in his orchard prior to 1889. That year more than 75 per cent of 
the trees became affected in whole or in part. The disease appeared in 
the spring and most of the trees were dead or dying when cut down the 
following autumn. A very pestilence seemed to have stricken the 
orchard. 
In August, at the time of my visit, only about fifty trees remained. 
These were replants, 4 to 0 years old, and had been thrifty. Dr. Keller- 
man and Mr. Swingle carefully examined them in July, 1889, at which 
date about one-half were healthy. Dr. Kellerman accompanied the 
writer in an examination and we could then find only two healthy 
trees. The rest were diseased in the same way as the cases of the pre¬ 
vious year—some were dead and the others showed symptoms through¬ 
out or on a part of the tree only. All trees which were noted as affected 
in July, 1889, were dead or dying. 
Neighboring orchards were almost as badly affected. Most of these 
were neglected seedling trees in sod ground. About one hundred cases 
were also observed in a peach thicket where the struggle for existence 
was severe. In none of these places could I satisfy myself that the 
disease had been present more than two seasons, and the question of 
its origin is exceedingly obscure. 
As in Georgia the terminal slioot-axes were developed into tufts all 
over the tree, but usually these were somewhat less compact. None of 
the peach trees had developed any luxuriant branched growths on the 
trunk or base of the main limbs as is common in the yellows of Mary¬ 
land and Delaware, but the winter buds were pushing in the same way. 
Last year some of these trees bore fruit, but I could not learn that any 
of it ripened prematurely. Frequently one-tliird to two-thirds only of 
the tree was visibly affected. Occasionally trees would be diseased, 
dwarfed, and yellow throughout, except one or two small terminal 
shoots in the top of the tree. These, in striking contrast, bore leaves 
of normal size and color. This also happens in Maryland and Dela¬ 
ware in ordinary yellows. 
This disease was also observed in cultivated plums of the Chickasaw 
type and in the hard shell almond. I have no hesitation in saying that 
it is identical with the disease which occurs in Georgia. 
