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In regard to Question No. 2, I may
say that the disease has been checked
<s>but not wholly eradicated</s> because
affected orchards have been almost
completely cut down and burned,
but still we find young orchards
showing it here and there, especially
if planted where diseased trees have
lately been removed; and as the inspectors
have relaxed their exertions
we may shortly be in as bad a state
as ever.

Very much, however, depends upon
the orchardists.  I am of the opinion
that more depends upon them than
upon the inspectors, and a dissemination
of the knowledge of the dangerous
nature of the yellows, and the necesssity - of prompt
extermination of trees affected, should
accompany any legislation upon
the subject.

(3) With regard to the first
appearance of the yellows, I usually
detect it first in the fruit, by
early ripening, red color of flesh, and
after the first year by decrease in size.
Then I observe it in the young growth
on the affected limbs, which is weakly & 
slender, while the diminutive leaves
grow in little peculiar whorls.

I have found the Alexander,
the Early Purple & the Old Mixon
about the worst in my orchard.
        