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Delaware City, Sept. 5, 1887.

Mr. E. F. Smith,

Dear Sir:

On Saturaday I met and had a conversation with Mr.
John Carrow, a farmer living near St. Georges, who in 1876
lived on a farm known as the "Henry Walker Farm" in Thoroughfare
neck on Smyrna Creek near Fleming's landing.  At that
time he had an orchard of 3,300 trees, four years old. Discovered
yellows in the varieties as follows.

He had of Mountain Rose 200 trees, found 20 yellow;

Yellow St. John 100 trees, found 2 yellow.

In Reeves, Moores Early, Old Mixon, 1,200 trees of the
three varieties he found eighty yellow trees.

He rooted out the trees at once, the next year he found
two or three yellow trees in the orchard, since which time the
orchard has been thrifty and one year ago was in good bearing.

This is his statement to me.  He has an orchard on
the farm upon which he is now living in which the yellows has
made its appearance this year (four years old).  He is using
the same remedy, viz. extracting them.  He states also that
        