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know.  If the disease can be communicated to healthy stocks
by inserting diseased buds, that fact would prove yellows to
be a contagious disease and not the result of starvation or
any lack of elements in the soil.  I hope the Government
will realize the importance of this matter and furnish you
with all the necessary means to continue the experiments and
investigations already began.  A series of experiments should
be continued for at least three or four years.  These experiments
need not be expensive but if carefully conducted will
establish some facts that will settle many disputed points.
It seems to me that if the Government would set some one investigating
the disease in Michigan, that notes could be compared
both in the East and West.  The result would be of
great importance.  A few hundred dollars used in that manner
might be used to great advantage.  What we need is some experiments
with this disease that will establish facts in relation
to several points which are now only theory or
conjecture.

Respectfully,

G. H. LaFleur,
Secy. West Mich. Fruit Growers Society.
P.S. Shall be pleased to hear from you again.
        