
          153

"In 1870, the planting of orchards [at South Haven],
especially of peaches, pears and grapes, increased with far
greater rapidity.  Doubtless this tendency was increased,
rather than otherwise, by the failure of the peach plantations
of Western Berrien, upon the advent of the yellows with the
utter neglect to apply an effective remedy; while the orchardists
of Western Van Buren, forewarned by the experience,
by a general exterpation of diseased trees, were enabled to
so far hold the disease in subjection that it proved a comparitively
slight restraing upon the planters.  Its first
appearance here was in 1873 although it seems to have followed
the railway northward and appeared in the central part of the
county at a somewhat earlier date [why follow the railroad?]
In nursery stock (?)
Ibid. p. 272.

No process has ever been issued for the enforcement of 
the yellows law at South Haven. Ibid. p. 272.

"The disease made its appearance in the orchards about
Lawton during the summer of 1878." Ibid. p. 272.

In 1864, A. S. Dyckman, of South Haven, shipped 600 baskets;
        