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"Situation or soil seem to make no difference, wet or dry,
exposed of sheltered, rich or poor, clay or sand."  x x "We
have good reasons for accepting the theory that the yellows
is something within the tree itself which develops and is
given off by it." x x "I have yet to see of hear of an infected
almond tree."  A. G. Gulley.  Dec. 1878. An. Rep. Secy.
Mich. St. Pom. Soc. 1878. p. 249-53.

"The disease is supposed to have been introduced in
this vicinity about the year 1862,* by means of trees imported
from New Jersey, which had been grown from the buds of infected
trees.  But few trees were so affected, and it was serverel [several]
years later when the disease in the vicinity of Benton Harbor
first assumed a contagious type.  A few tres [trees] in the large orchards
south of St. Joseph showed signs of yellows, but the
character of the disease being known, such trees were immediately
destroyed, and many fine crops were grown before the
trees were all affected.  The area of the country infected
was comparitively small until the past two seasons [1878 and
1879], when the disease has assumed a more violent character,
and has spread over all of Berrien Co., excepting a small
portion of the extreme southern part, and has destroyed many

*wrong date - should be 1866- So says
Mr. Brown himself in answer to my inquiry.
        