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normal.  All these I will look after & 
report.

In my orchard of 6,000 trees from three
to six years old I dug up last
season three trees and this season have
taken out two and have two more to
dig out.  Some old and neglected
orchards are diseased still more.
It is the opinion of several of the
fruit growers that the disease is
on the increase.

Peach trees grow here along the 
hedge rows and streams and the 
woodlands, and trees diseased are
occasionally found in these places,
hence it will be more difficult to
eradicate the disease in such localities.
Trees injured by borers and
from winter and spring frosts should
not be confounded with this disease,
and many such trees are classed with
the so-called yellows.
* * * *
Yours respectfully,
J. D. Husted.
        