The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-07

been reported in this state, but strin- gent measures should be taken to pre- vent it.
 Under the Read of "The Peach Iel- lows Law" MT. J. M. Hubbard or Mlu- dletown was introduced as the Proles- s,r of Peach Yellows." MT. Hubbard IS the chairman of the peach yellows copi- mission. which has the administration of the law in it's hands. He sald tndl peach yellows is a contagious disease and when 1t gets into an orchard IS com municated from tree to tree in some way. The most stringent measures must be employed and it is almost im- possible to eradicate the disease sue cess is only the result of untiring vigil lance from the very beginning. It has been found that after destroying every tree that appears to be affected in particular orchard, even then the dls- ease appears all over the orchard at later date. The speakers inference from these facts is that there IS perloo of incubation during which the trees are really affected, but that the disease IS not sufficiently developed to appear III the well-known outward symptoms More light and more information only to be obtained from thorough sclentlnc investigation, are greatly needed Ine disease is an obscure one, and the grow CTS know but little about it.
 The topic was discussed by President Smith and MT. J. H. Hale. MT Hale said the only way to control the peach yellows was to mercilessly destroy eve ry tree upon which the disease shows. The growers need more education. They should, by great care in opserNa- ton, learn what the earliest symptoms of the disease are, and not wait untli the whole tree is far gone. The grow CTS should not wait for the commission CT or his deputy to tell them what to do- The disease is not in the top of the tree, | if is in the roots The earliest indlca-
 ton of the peach yellows is a little closer clustering of the leaves on the
 main stems. If you look closely you | will see a slight crinkly appearance ana
 a. slight tinge of yellow in the green Several speakers followed, and all l agreed that this was the earliest of the
 peach yellows. | At 11:45 1t was suggested that as the
 house had finished it's session for the day, the meeting adjourn to the hall oi the house, where all could get seats
 This was accordingly done When the meeting was recalled to order MT. 1aie secured the floor and said that In view of the proposal to repeal the yelloWs law he would like to get an expression o opinion in regard to it, and asked al who favored the repeal of the law t'
 stand up. one gentleman stood up anf
 was counted. MT. Hale asked him how
 many trees he owned. The sohtar!
 voter said he owned trees, but dld no
 care to say how many. Then tnos
 who favored the present law were aske'
 to rise, and fifty or sixty were on thel
 feet i'm a moment MT. Hale then pro
 ceeded to call the roll, and asked eacl
 grower voting in favor of the law nov
 many trees he owned, The rep4le ranged all the way from three hundre'
 to three thousand trees.
 Professor A. G. Gulley of Storrs schoo was introduced and made an interest ing address on peach yellows. Protes
 sor Gulley's remarks were from tn
 standpoint of a practical orchardist a well as that of scientist The speaR CT said that scientists have done a grea
 deal of harm by their Investigating an , only a little good. In the first plac . there are those who teach that 1t can D , cured That is a great mistake. q ' not believe there is a single case on rec : ord where a tree affected by the yellow | has ever been actually cured. It cannt ' be cured. Another difficulty Is frol
 those who ridicule the idea that the ye
 lows Is a contagious disease, and say
 ia impossible that d tree can be effecte e by a disease which can be communicf Y ted to other trees. Professor Guile, Q who has had a large experience with tf
 peach yeilows in the state of Michigan
 gave history of fighting the disease that state. There has been a law in ol 2 eration for the past eighteen year - There has never been any talk there s repeating the law, and while. at or r time the whole state was ravaged | Il the yellows, now the loss from yellow t is less than two per cent. In Michiga 5, it took some fourteen years of hal n work and vigorous enforcement of u c ,a,,, +o ,.id fha ta of the disease.