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Full text of Yellows law of 1879. pp. 363-65 of An. Rep.
Secy. St. Hort. Soc. Mich., 1979.

"S.H. Comings [(of St. Joseph)] read a letter from a friend in
New Jersey, which stated that peaches were now growing to
perfection there in regions devastated by the yellows but a
few years ago."--Sept. 18, 1880, Benton Harbor meeting, Berrien
Co. Hort. Society.  Annual Rep. Secy. Mich. State Hort. Soc. 1880.
p. 313.

[The present yellows law of Michigan applies to peaches,
almonds, nectarines, and appricots [apricots].]

[The old yellows law of Mich., 1879, was loaded down with
provisions and impractable [impracticable].  The present one is concise,
clear, and practical.]

Does the law stand to-day as it did in 1885? [illegible] 1890.

"Let it [yellows] once get a foot hold and the orchard
is doomed; so is the neighborhood, so far as peaches are concerned."
--C. D. Lawton, at Winter meeting of State Hort. Soc.,
Lansing, Mich., Feb. 1879, An. Rep. Secy. St. Hort. Soc., 1879.
p. 26.
        