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from a large and badly infested plantation, any more than he can 

 eradicate the apple-scab or the bark-louse. But I should expect 

 him to keep it in check. Spraying for San Jose scale must come 

 to be an accepted practice, as spraying for potato-blight is. 



All this means that the farmer should not be frightened, but 

 should be self-reliant and determined. But the State should help 

 him. The law should not help him less, but more. Nursery stock 

 should be fumigated with hydrocyanic acid gas, under strict control. 

 It would be folly to attempt to burn every infested tree or bush 

 wherever found ; but the law should be so amended as to allow a 

 properly qualified officer to destroy plants which, in the judgment 

 of experts, are a menace to the general weal. 



