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"A tree cannot escape if even one peach becomes diseased;
it will die in two of three years." T. T. Lyon. Ibid. p. 275.

[(More early excision experiements must be tried.)]

T. W. Sithes of Millgrave, reports that he cut off a twig
which bore premature peaches and next year the tree was as
healthy as any in the orchard.--Ibid. p. 275. [C. W. Garfield,
gave me to understand that there seemed to be
some foundation in S.W. Mich. for such a statement.]
or at least that some person had insisted that is was a fact.

"Secy. Garfield said Mr. G. S. Woodard of Lockport, N.Y.,
put out thirty acres of peach trees a few years ago, and now
[(1880)] he is taking them all out before having got a crop,
all being diseased with yellows.  He thinks they must stop
raising peaches there." p. 275.  "Mr Garfield first saw the
St. Joseph region in 1871.  The orchards then were almost
everywhere. x x Now there is scarcely one left.  The growers
there say the yellows did the work of destruction."  .Ibid
p. 275.

"They are giving up peaches [(at Benton Harbor and St. Joseph
Mich.)] on account of the yellows."  Report Mich. State Pom. Society.
1877. p. 402.
        