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a law for such a purpose, very little could be accomplished.
The people, however, in the peach growing districts, were being
educated by the agitation of the question and by the 
devastation of their orchards to demand another law of wider
application.  In answer to this demand, we have the law now
under discussion [(law of 1879)]."--Rev. J. F. Taylor, Saugatuck,
Dec. <s>19</s>, 1879, before the Annual Meeting of State Hort. Soc.
at Allegan. Ibid. p. 211.

Report of Yellows Commissioner B. D. Williams for year
1879, for South Haven.--Ibid. p. 213-14.

Trees at a distance from diseased ones are as likely to
be affected as those near.--T. T. Lyon. Ibid. p. 273.

Profits of peaches in Allegan Co., in 1879, "We read of
a man who got $1,000 for the peaches on less than four acres
without the trouble of picking or marketing them; of another
whose sales from an orchard of ten acres amounted to $4,700.
Senator Lewis has good cause to estimate the value of the
peach crop of the lake shore towns at $200,000 and of the
town of Ganges alone at $50,000 to $76,000 and bi ibe questions

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