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Roadstown, [New Jersey.]
1 / 30 / 1888.

Mr. Erwin F. Smith:

Yours of Jan 23 at hand, we have I am sorry to say what
you are inquiring after, it is becoming general throughout southern
N Jersey.  I have two orchards, one set four the other five
years; one on land highly improved the other poor but see very
little difference in disease.  We have never been troubled much
with it until within five or six years but it is on the increase
attacking younger trees that are making good growth filling them
with what we call water sprouts on the trunk and large limbs,
do not know of any remedy.

Yours
J. McSmalley.
        