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[Yellows was very bad in South-western Michigan, in 1877-8.
Examine records to determine whether these were wet seasons.]

[(Does the disease remain in a locality when it has once
appeared, i.e. become <s>epidemic</s> endemic?)]

Full text of law of 1875 on pp. 155-157. Rep. Secy. Mich. State
Pom. Society, 1876.

It covered three counties: Allegan, Van Buren, and Ottawa.
p. 726. Loc. Acts, 1875.

At meeting of Am. Pom. Society, Chicago, Sept., 1875,
Thos. Meehan read a paper on "Fungi and Fruit Diseases" in
which he treats of yellows. Says various things may cause it.
Fungi etc.  Apparently he did not then have any clear notion
of the disease. p. 369. See whole paper in Rep. Secy. Mich. State
Pom. Society. 1875. pp. 307-310.

On page 496 of Mich. Pom. Rep., 1874, mention is made
(Aug. 22) of a peach tree near South Haven which (last year,
1873) bore two premature peaches "on the end of a limb, which
limb was removed as soon as the peaches were discovered to be

        