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Soil Poverty & Peach Yellows.

[ If "yellows" is due to soil-exhaustion the
most convincing proof will be found in
localities where the action of other presumptive
causes, e.g. contagium, freezing, etc. have
been reduced, naturally or artificially, to
a minimum. Manifestly, it will not do to
accept evidence on this point from sections
of the country where several supposed
causes are acting unrestrainedly
at the same time, and any one of which
may be the true cause. For this reason
the whole Atlantic coast is ruled out,
and also a large part of the northwest.
In all this region either the
<s>climate is</s> winters are severe; or 
the disease is not present; or it
is allowed to spread without any
general and systematic effort to
check it.

The only localities really suitable
for such an inquiry, are (1) those
parts of the South where the disease
has never appeared; and (2) the peach
belt of Western Michigan, on the Lake
Shore, in the vicinity of South Haven,
Van Buren Co., and in the townships
of Casco, Gauges, and Saugatuck, Allegan
Co. where the yellows law is enforced.

(Discuss the character of the Soil, the period it
has been under cultivatiton & the longevity
the orchards in S. Del., S. Md. in Va. & further S.)
        