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thinks that peach growing in this region is not profitable,
let him call on our fruit growers and get facts."

[This is at the rate of $53.66 per tree.]

Peach trees in fruit region of Berrien Co. pp. 240-41.
1865 - - 201,603.
1869 - - 365,530?
1872 - - 594,467
1874 (Census whole Co.)
1884 - - 54,827
(Approximate,- 109 trees to acre; over one-half being trees recently set.)

In December John Whittlesey, of St. Joseph, reports the
following peach shipments for Berrien County in 1877:

By water - - 422,225 baskets;

Ryder, Prof. of Zoology in Univ. of Pa.
told Mr. Swingle in fall of 1898
he had seen peach yellows in a 
Locust tree growing near a
diseased peach.
[I have seen witch brooms [witches' broom] in the common
Locust. [illegible] knows. Such sprouts die early & have
here a not many tiny branches & very small leaves.]
        