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After receiving Robt. Reid's letter of April 18,
1888 (see p. 327) I asked him the following
questions to clear up some of his statements:

1. How long after you dug out the 300 yellows
trees before you re-set? was it in 1878?

2. When you re-set did you manure these
trees or give them any other treatment very different
from the rest of the orchard?

3. In the other orchard of 500 trees, destroyed
by yellows, and re-set two years
ago, how long a time intervened between
the digging out & the resetting i.e. what year
did you dig these out & what re-set?

4. Have you used potash or any
special fertilizer on the trees re-set
two years ago in place of the 500? So
that this might possibly account for theirr
healthy appearance?

Reid answered as follows:

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Douglas, April 26, '88.

Mr. Smith,

Dear Sir:- Yours is at hand. In
answer to your first question - the next
year, 1879.

2nd.  Used no manure, but put air slaked
lime on all my orchard.  Have manured
since.  The soil is gravelly - wheat soil.

3d. Three years. Dug out the last in 1883.
reset in 1886.
        