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"According to the Peninsular News, there were shipped
from Delaware during the pach season [1877], 3,666,500 baskets,
yielding a net return to the growers of $1,099,950. In
addition to this there were dried and canned about 300,000
baskets more, which will yield the growers $120,000 more, making
the total value of the 1877 Delaware peach crop $1,219,950."
C. & C. Gent. 1877. p. 651.

"Last summer in reporting the success of the peach culture
in the Niagara river near the falls we mentioned the orchard
of Mr. Burdett, which had borne fruit for more than twenty
years, consisting of two thousand trees, and yielding in a 
favorable season over $6,000." The orchard is on the river.
Ibid. p. 554.

In 1877 Clermont and Warren were the great peach counties of 
Ohio.  Ibid. p. 424.  [East & N.E. of Cincinatti [Cincinnati]-Clermont
is on Ohio River]

"We have lost most of our trees in this region [Benton
Harbor, Mich., 1877] by yellows." Correspondent in C. & C. 
Gent. 1877. p. 72.

"This violent and contagious disease has nearly destroyed
        