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stinging insect was not the chap. I have been frank and admitted 

 that we did not know the insect that was doing that work. Now I 

 have made mv tests, and we know what insect it is, and I want to 

 say that you cannot catch the insect in that trap — I don't care how 

 man}' affidavits come in from gentlemen who know nothing about 

 insects. I know the gentleman who manufactures those traps has 

 recommendations from men. and affidavits to the effect that nlum 

 curculios are caught in those traps. You cannot catch them, except 

 now and then by accident, and there is no earthh' use of your using 

 those traps in your orchard for that insect. We cannot spray for 

 tliat insect. It will not do any good to spray for that insect. No spray, 

 so far as I know at all, will effect it. The best thing I know of is clean 

 cultivation, cultivate thoroughly if you can ; keep all trash, rubbish 

 of all kinds, stone piles even, weeds and mulches, and so on, away from 

 vour orchard, and turn just as many poultry in there as you possibly 

 can, from the fore part of July just as long in the season as you can. 

 The poultry I find is the very best thing in the world for this insect. 

 A\'hen the apples drop, or when the insects come out, provided the 

 apple stays on the trees, the poultry will catch them in many instances 

 before they get in the ground. Furthermore, when the adults come 

 out, they crawl before they try to fly, and the poultry will catch them, 

 and they will scratch up leaves and try to find them. So far as I can find 

 out poultry is the only means of keeping this insect in check. 



Now, so far as the cultivation itself is concerned, in stirring up the 

 soil, it does not amount to a row of pins. The moment that you turn 

 over the soil those insects will go straight in, and 3-ou can turn it 

 over as much as you wish before they have made their pupa and thev 

 will go back into the soil. 



One other insect I wish to speak of is a new insect that has just 

 been introduced in the United States. You have heard a good deal about 

 the San Jose scale, and that is known as the most injurious insect so 

 far as fruit is concerned. There is another insect that has got in the 

 L'nited States, known as the West Indies scale, although it did not 

 come from the West Indies. It came from Central America and come 

 up through Mexico. This insect is a scale and affects vegetation of almost 

 all kinds so far as we know ; all kinds of fruit trees, forest trees and 

 ornamental trees. It is practically as hard to kill as the San Jose 

 scale, and kills the trees almost as quick when it gets on them. It 

 has only one advantage over the San Jose scale: (you can see it on the 

 piece of bark I hold up here) while the San Jose scale is almost the color 

 of the bark, this scale is white and readily detected. I will have some- 

 thing more to say of this insect when I talk of legislation regarding in- 

 sects. 



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