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also believe that the disease can be kept in check if all fruit
growers would dig out and burn all trees as soon as they discover
the disease." [Cf. Dr. Henry Ridgely's experience] Sec'y Ramsdell (1882). An. Rep. Sec'y Mich. State
Hort. Soc. 1882, p. 306.

Report of S. Haven Yellows Commissioner,
<s>Com</s>  D. B. Williams.

Year: 1879
No. Trees Exd.: 62,856
No. with Yellows: 2,245
% sick: 3½

Year: 1880
No. Trees Exd.: 68,758
No. with Yellows: 5,675
% sick: 8

Year: 1881
No. Trees Exd.: 71,353
No. with Yellows: 3,256
% sick: 4½

Year: 1882
No. Trees Exd.: 120,425
No. with Yellows: 4,544
% sick: 4

Ib. p. 308.

[Ask T. T. Lyon for more recent statistics.] There are none according to Mr.
Williams,-Posted Feb. 1888.

"We do not claim to have discovered a positive remedy for the
disease called yellows, nor to have proved what the disease is."
Prof. Maynard (1882), Ib., p. 343.

J. M. Asher, National City, Cal., (1872) "had never seen a case
of yellows in the State." Ib. p. 344.

[Yellows has been cured by lime, potash, removal of infected
limbs, hot water and hot lye on roots, hot soap, fish brine, bone-dust,
wood ashes, etc. but in spite of all these <s>things</s> remedies the disease
still sweeps away orchard after orchard.]  cf. Ib., p. 345.

"What we want is some scientific man to go into a country
        