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this." x x About $45,000 was paid out for peaches
in the vicinity of Fennville.--Allegan Journal quoted. Ibid
pp. 348-50.

Profits of peach orchard of a little less than four acres
owned by Geo. F. Lay, Allegan Co.

1874 - repaid cost planting.
1875 - no crop.
1876 - $300. and home use.
1877 - $500.
1878 - $800.
1879 - $1,000. Did his own picking.
1880 - $800. Reserved some trees and sold
fruit on rest.
Mr. Lay's own statement. Mich. Hort. Rep. 1880. p. 276.

Mr A. G. Gulley says that every healthy bearing peach tree
is "as good as or better than five dollars permanently invested
at 10%." x x "At least 5,000 trees have been destroyed
by this disease [(yellows)] the past season [(1878)] in this
county alone [(Van Buren)]" x x "No variety is exempt from this
disease. Seedlings suffer the same as budded fruit." x x
        