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"Death and Taxes.'' I think we may now safely add San Jos6 Scale 

 as the third. While we are talking, the scale is at work, and if we 

 wish to make any headway in controlling it, we too must work. It 

 is a condition almost as dangerous as smallpox, and it should be 

 visited and condemned by the proper official and promptly treated 

 or destroyed. The law should be strict and severe. It strikes me 

 as an exceedingly important question, and whatever is to be done, 

 should be done promptly and by some State official. It has about, 

 been decided that the best remedy is lime, salt and sulphur, and 

 there are several questions in relation to this treatment in which 

 I am specially interested, as no doubt many others present are. 

 The best method of preparing the spraying material, the most sat- 

 isfactory pump, and what number of trees will justify a power pump; 

 also what is the best motor or power for a spraying outfit. All 

 these are important questions which could be discussed with profit. 



MR. CHASE: I am hardly prepared to express an opinion as to 

 what should be done, but I think the laws should be enforced by the 

 highest police powers of the State. 



ME. HIESTER: Dr. Armsby has just suggested that the careless 

 man who has infested trees might be proceeded against as a nui- 

 sance. I think the best way to get this matter in practical shape is 

 to refer it to a committee with power to report at a subsequent ses- 

 sion, and I move that the Chair be authorized to appoint a commit- 

 tee of five for that purpose. 



The motion was adopted. 



DR. ARMSBY: I have listened with much interest to this discus- 

 sion. The great difficulty seems to be the almost omnivorous habits 

 of this insect. It is hardly possible to exterminate it and we must 

 light it. I take it that the nurseryman and enterprising fruit grower 

 is willing to fight it, but wants to be protected from his neighbor 

 who will not do so. Might he not be punishable under the general 

 law as a nuisanc-e. 



The Chair appointed the following committee as provided in the 

 above resolution: 



Messrs. Creasy, Moon, Peters, Armsby and Surface. 

 Adjourned. 



Wednesday Morning, January 20, 1904. 



President Chase called the meeting to order at 9.30 and stated that 

 the report of the General Fruit Committee would be first in order. 



