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healthy fruit has been and can be grown
upon trees planted in the place where trees diseased
with yellos have been removed.

My first experience in this direction
occurred the susmmer of 1874 when in an
orchard of some 4,000 trees I discovered
six trees of the Early Crawford variety all
heavily laden with fruit and standing quite
near to each other, showing unmistakable
signs of yellows.  a part of the fruit on
each of those trees was spotted with red
spots, the red streaks extending from the
surface to the pits.  I had those trees dug
out at once and burned, and the 
following spring planted trees in the
same places.  These trees came into bearing
the third and fourth year from planting
and produced fine healthy peaches and
continued in so doing during the
life of the trees.

At the present time I have one
tree that bore its first fruit last
season being four years old this Spring
from setting.  The fruit was perfectly
healthy.  This tree was set in the place
of one taken out that had the wiry growth
of wood, and had yellows and no
mistake.

From  my own experience, and with
quite extensive observations as commissioner
of yellows for four years, I am strongly inclined
to the belief that where trees having
yellows are promptly removed and destroyed
there need be but little cause for alarm
but what we shall be able to furnish healthy
        