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A. R. Nowlen, of Benton Harbor, says, [April, 1873,] "I
think the disease made it appearance five years ago [1868]
for the first time and in various orchards several miles
distant from each other and simultaneously."  Ibid. p. 22.

L. Collins of St. Joseph [April 2, 1873] says: "We have
the disease called the yellows without any doublt among our 
trees, and that to an alarming extent.  I have lost one orchard
of eight hundred trees entirely by the disease." ibid.
p. 23.

J. E. Chamberalin, [April 12, 1873] says: "If premature
ripening of fruit is the evidence of the disease termed yellows,
then this disease extends North and South, through all
the fruit belt of Michigan." Ibid. p. 23.

See additional facts in the same paper.  The people there 
thought exactly as they do to-day in Maryland and Delaware,
that the disease could not be yellows, And yet it was.

"In the orchard of John T. Edwards diseased peach trees
grafted on plum stalks were entirely destroyed by the yellows
without injuring the root at all; below the graft the live
healthy root sent out strong plum stalks."--Ibid. p. 26.
        