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Of four trees set in 1870, one contracted the disease the third
year; the rest after two crops.

In 1882 he set twenty-seven first class trees and kept
the ground cultivated. "I have applied yearly kainit, high
grade of muriate of potash, bone and wood ashes; look for
worms a dozen times a year, head back one-half of every
branch, and now a good share of these trees have the yellows."

"My soil is a heavy loam, subsoil, yellow clay."

"Peach yellows" p. 372, Third Annual Report of the Board
of Control of the New York Agricultural Experimental Station
1884. Albany, 1885.  In this Dr. Arthur says:

"No case of yellows occurs in the immediate vicinity of
the Station [Geneva].  On July 11 a visit was made to several
extensive orchards near Kings Ferry on Cayuga Lake, about
twenty miles distant where x  x  x I had the opportunity
of inspecting great numbers of sick trees in all stages of 
decline."  Dr. Arthur could not satisfy himself whether
these trees had yellows and also expresses a doubt whether it
is a specific disease at all.  From his account I judge it
was yellows. In October seven miles from the station he 
also saw a few trees "which showed every external indication
        