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"It [yellows] has traveled within 73 years from the Atlantic
to the Rocky Mts." W. A. Smith, Berrien Co. Mich.- Ibid p. 318.

Diseased trees were permitted to stand and orchards were
swept away when the yellows first appeared in Berrien Co.- The
disease has advanced N. and E. most rapidly. W. A. Brown.  Ib.
318-319.

Dr. Miles studied Yellows in Allegan and Van Buren Cos. p.
319, Ib.

In the 3 mos., Aug., Sept., and Oct., 1881, in South Haven,
$112,724 was paid through the bank-- "nearly all for peaches".
"I have examined for several other years and am satisfied that
4/5 of the money coming to this vicinity for the past 15 years for
fruit or other farm products is from peaches, excepting the past
year [1885] and the year of partial failure" C. J. Monroe, Ib, p. 349.

A strong article against shipping premature fruit. Ib., pp.
348-9.

"That dire disease know as 'The Yellows' is spreading through
the peach orchards in the Western portion of our State, and under
its malignant influence many of our finest and most profitable
orchards are nearly ruined.  We think we are now holding the
disease in check, by promptly destroying the trees on the first manifestation
of the disease.  If, however, the yellows continues
        