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"Unfortunately there are many persons of the opinion expressed
by your correspondent, better let the trees go [remain]
and take their chances.  They adopted this course in the vicinity
of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, and as a result what
was but a few years ago one of the most noted and propsperous
fruit regions of America has had its most profitable industry
entirely destroyed by an unfortunate adherence to this same
short-sighted policy."--Ibid. p. 21.

[This paper covers pp. 20-23.]

" In the early history of the disease [yellows in Michigan]
before its devastating power was known, law seemed unnecessary
but after years of experience by peach growers,--after orchards
had been laid waste and abandoned in nearly all the 
old peach growing districts of the east, and after the disease
had well-nigh ruined the once beautiful orchards of St.
Joe--nothing less than the purpose of extermination could
have stimulated those who sought for legal protection.  The
result of thte first effort to secure legal protection against
the spread of the yellows was the law of 1875.  But for
reasons to which I need not refer, it was mad applicable
only to Van Buren, Allegan, and Ottawa counties.  With such
        