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trees to bear the second season, doubtless
I could say, yes, to the last clause of your 
first question.

Question 2. When was it?

I first discovered unmistakable yellows,
in the fruit of one limb of one tree, in my
peach orcharding some fifteen years ago.  I dug 
the tree out and burned it, before the crop matured.
Do not remember as I reset the following
spring in this particular case but did
very soon thereafter.  Have had yellows ever since
reaching as high as 75 bearing trees in a season,
and it has been my practice to reset the following
Spring - all these years.

Question 3. Under what circumstances?

I had read of the disease. The fruit was getting
color weeks ahead of the rest of the tree, or others. I
believed it to be the yellows - invited my friends
to see it, the first of whom unhesitatingly denied
its being the yellows, but could only
say "it was getting prematurely ripe for some
reason."  He was as inexperienced as myself
and that I was right my subsequent experience
proved.  A few trees followed the same
fate the next year, and for several years I took
out and reset  from 30, 40, 50, to 75 & then ran
down to 50, 40, 30, 10, 1, 1, and last fall, with
4,000 trees set & 2,000 bearing, I lost 6 trees.
You will notice that two falls I had but
one case each.  I cannot give the exact
number reset, but I fill every vacancy
every Spring, and the most of these trees are in
bearing - and many of them have been until
they are past their prime.

5th Question [How long did these trees remain healthy?]
Am not certain that I have lost a tree with
yellows the second time in the same place. Since
the orchard reached a large growth filling
[illegible] has been, of course, at a great disadvantage
to the newly set trees - but evidently the fact
that yellows trees prece<s>e</s>ded them has nothing
        