
          129

"According to the assessors' returns, the number of
bushels of peaches produced [in Ohio] the past six or seven
years has been as follows:

1869 - - 1,444,523.
1870 - - 309,639.
1871 - - 860,530.
1872 - - 405,619.
1873 - - 94,516.
1874 - - 2,335,514."

[These returns are not very accurate.]

M. B. Pateham, Painesville, O., (Secy. Ohio Horticultural
Society.) Cultivator and Country Gentleman. 1876. p. 182.

"Caspar Hiller said [1875] that the yellows was much
less prevalent [in Pennsylvania] than formerly."  Rep. Penn.
Fruit Growers Association. C. & C. Gent. 1876. p. 316.

Cold winters not a cause of yellows. C. & C. Gent. 1876
p. 134.

In 1877 the S. Cultivator gave some curious facts showing
wide variation in ripening of peaches in S. C.--attributed
to locality and external influences. C. & C. Gent. 1877.
p. 413.
        