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"I heard the other day through a party in Philadelphia
that Jersey peaches were as badly affected with yellows as
those from Delaware."  W. S. Maxwell, Letter of Aug. 21, 1887.
[Ask him to ask his commission merchant in Philadelphia if
this report is true.]

Ex-Congressman Hon. E. L. Martin, Seaford, Del., says he
has no yellows in his orchards and does know of its existence
in that neighborhood. Letter of Sept. 14, 1887.

Col. Martin thinks nine-tenths of the disease of peach 
trees can be traced back to the nursery.  He would compel
nurserymen to plant only healthy stock and bud healthy buds.
Del. Farm and Home, Dec. 22, 1887. Address at Meeting of 
State Grange at Dover, Del.

Henry Race, of Pittstown, N. J., says in letter of Sept.
3, 1887: "You can reclaim them if the remedy [equal parts
of bone and muriate of potash, four to six hundred pounds
per acre] is used when the diseased condition is incipient;
if much advanced take the tree out." [I cannot tell when trees
        