Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1913 — Peaches Affected With Yellows. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Peaches Affected With Yellows.

The accompanying Illustration and description from a Maryland publication may be of assistance to farmers in determining this disease. “The fruit ripens several days; or weeks before healthy fruit of the same variety. The prematurely ripened fruit is red spotted and has red streaks through the flesh and the

fruit is worthless. Later the leaf buds develop into slender twigs which have small, narrow, pointed, yellowish leaves and the tree soon dies. The disease may show on part of the tree only, though the whole tree be diseased. Examine all the trees carefully during the ripening period and afterward and pull up and burn every affected tree as soon as dlsIpovered no matter how slightly diseased. This will keep the disease down so that only a few cases appear each year, when if they are allowed to stand the disease spreads rapidly to the surrounding trees.”

TREE AFFECTED WITH YELLOWS