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a few years  before we discovered it here and were looking out for
it, anticipating its arrival.

3. I do not know that I have seen any trees affected with yellows
that were grown on plum stock, others might know, I do not.
We have had yellows commissioners since 1879 and one <s>for</s> year, 1885, I
think, they kept an exact record showing the nmber of trees in 
every orchard examined and the number of trees diseased with yellows
so as to give the percentage of loss.  I have not the figures
I have kept track of the matter closely enough to be certain that
the disease has not increased in any orchards when the proper attention
was given, i. E. when the trees were destroyed as soon as
they were known to be diseased.  For instance, in Mr. Baxters' orchard
were found more diseased trees the first year than were found
there in any subsequent year.  Mr. Halstead, in an orchard of say
2000 trees, destroyed more trees the first year that the disease
appeared than he found in any year after that.  He has an orchard
that is 17 or 18 years old and it has very many of the original
trees still. and in a healthy bearing condition.  I have observed 
the matter carefully and have found invariably that when great
care was taken to destroy the diseased trees and to give proper
cultivation, <s>too</s> etc., those orchards have survived and given good results
and on the other hand when the trees-diseased trees- were
neglected, allowed to remain, the disease has invariably spread very
rapidly and the entire orchard has soon disappeared.

I have one fact that has staggered me a little.  I have a
        