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Analysis of peach wood An. Rep. of Conn. Agric. Exper. Station,
1884, p. 94.  Analyses apparently made by or under direction
of Dr. E. H. Jenkins, Ph. D.

On pp. 77-80 of Report Conn. Bd. of Agric. 1884-5 is an interesting
discussion of peach yellows. Mr. J. H. Hale of South
Glastonbury, Conn. said: "When we first commenced planting peach
trees on a large scale, 4 or 5 years ago, I had seen an account of
Prof. Goessmann's experiments at the Ag. Col. at Amherst, and I
made up my mind to follow the potash theory out to the end of it.
At the time of our planting the first trees, the whole ground,
some 5 or 6 acres, was manured with about 800 pounds of muriate
of potash to the acre (probably a very heavy and unnecessary application),
except on one field near the house, where some 200
trees were planted.  No potash was applied there.  Every year since
all of those orchards have had from 5 to 6 hundred pounds of muriate
of potash applied, sometimes in the fall, sometimes 
in the spring, and this plantation of nearly 200 trees, near the 
house, has never had any potash until this last season, in the
spring [Spring ofo 1884].  They were then 5 years old.  Of the
5,800 trees [can it be possible to put all those on 6 acres?] where
the potash has been applied for the last 4 or 5 years, there is
just one tree that shows any trace of the yellows, and of the 200
trees that have not had an application of potash, over 30 percent
        