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like Berrien Co. in our State, where the disease, in spite of the
employment of the best knowledge concerning its prevention, has
cleared out the peach interest; then let him dig until he feels
that he has something accurate and valuable to communicate, and
until that time to hold his peace.  Until some one in whom the
public have confidene will do this we shall have no satisfactory
solution of the problem." C. W. Garfield (1882), Ib., p. 347.

[The present "Yellows" law of Michigan is substantially that
passed by the Legislature in 1881? (1880?). There have been only
a few verbal changes since then to render its workings more specific.
This Act repealed the previous Act of 1879.]

[If the cause of yellows is climatic it ought not to appear
in peach centers, at least not first but rather on border regions. The reverse of
this is true.  If yellows is a germ disease or due to insects it
would be more likely to appear in centers and work outward.  This
is what we find.]

"Have we any new light on pear blight or Yellows" a paper
by Prof. T. J. Burrill read before An. Meeting Mich. St. Hort. Soc.
Dec., 1881., p. 133-138. An. Rep. 1881, I make the following extracts:-
        