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Question.

"In your experience have you ever succeeded in
growing healthy peaches from trees set in the place
of those dug out on account of unmistakable
"yellows" i.e. set in place of trees which bore the
premature, red-spotted fruit, or the starved wiry
branches, or both?  If you have done so, when
was it, and under what circumstances, and
how long did the trees remain healthy?"

To this question sent out March 27 April 9, 1888
at later dates I have received the following replies:

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[Fennville, Mich.] April 11, 1888.
[See p. 338 for additional information]

Dear Sir:

I have done so successfully.  I planted an
orchard on new ground and out of that orchard
one year I cut out twenty trees, adjoining, all of
which had unmistakable yellows - which showed
spotted fruit and wiry fungus growth.  The trees
planted in the places of those taken out have
borne nothing but the best of fruit, showing no
signs of yellows, and are still bearing
on "Forest Fruit Farm"
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Yours respectfully,
J. P. Wade.

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South Haven [Mich.], April 12, 1888.

Erwin F. Smith
Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Dear Sir: Yours of the 9th is duly received and
contents noted, and are very glad to impart such knowledge 
as I have which is limited.  Perhaps to answer your
question by simply saying, "Yes, they could". would not
be as satisfactory as to give you some brief examples.

I came into this country in 1852 when it was
one vast wilderness.  After the two first years having
some improvement & knowing [that] our neighbors South
at St. Joseph were raising peaches [we] thought we would
try, and up to this date have raised peaches; have set
5 different orchards at various times on my farms
and in the three first never saw any  yellows. From
1875 have had a few cases of the yellows, but with
        