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spreading, in spite of the efforts to arrest it by cutting
down and burning all affected trees, as is done by compulsory
law.  It appears too from recents accounts that the disease
made its appearance the past season and is spreading rapidly
this summer [July, 1879] in the lake shore peach orchards of
Niagara Co., N.Y>, so there is reason to fear that the lake
shore region of the Ohio will have a visitation of the malady.&quot;--
Twelth Annual Report of the Ohio State Horticultural Society.
(Columus, 1879). p. 106.

[I have examined these Ohio Reports from 1876 to 1877.
Nothing on yellows in Ohio except denials of its presence in
various parts.]
        