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3. I have not been over the territory the second time and cannot 

 say to what extent the interest is increasing, but judging from what 

 I hear, I feel sure that the interest is increasing from year to year. 

 A great many people whom I meet are very anxious to know if 

 their orchards are infested with the San Jos^ Scale, so that they 

 can treat them if they are infested. 



I have received a great many letters from persons who feared that 

 their trees were infested and asked me to go and make an inspection 

 of their trees. I have also had farmers come to see me j^ersonally 

 to learn what materials to spray with for dilferent insects. 



4. I think that if we suspend our work at the end of this year that 

 much of the work which we have already done will be lost, as our 

 work needs agitation from time to time in order to accomplish what 

 we wish and ought to do. The farmers need our help, as in this 

 district they are more ignorant regarding horticulture than any 

 other branch of agriculture. 



5. The Inspector is sometimes received very cordially, with the 

 remark that they are very glad that he came; there is something the 

 matter with their trees, and that they would be very glad to know 

 what it is. Sometimes the people are skej^tical regarding our work, 

 being ignorant of the purposes. The Inspector is sometimes received 

 with inditference and met with the statement: '"The trees are down 

 there in the orchard, they don't amount to much but you can go and 

 look at them if you want to." 



6. Boiled lime and sulphur are used almost exclusively in spraying 

 for the San Jos6 Scale. I found one place where they had sprayed 

 with crude pretroleum. 



7. Very good results have been obtained by spraying with the 

 lime and sulphur. Where the crude petroleum was used the trees 

 were in a bad condition but the owner was satisfied with the results.* 



8. The outlook for fruit growing in this district is good in many 

 places, the farmers are planting out young trees and are interested 

 in learning how to care for them. In other sections there is practi- 

 cally no interest taken. The trees are nearly all old and unpro- 

 ductive and their owners claim that it does not pay to grow fruit 

 in their section. They do not realize that if they would give the 

 same care and attention to their trees that they do to their farm 

 crops that their fruit would be the most profitable crop grown. 



I was in an orchard a few days ago of more than 100 matured 

 apple trees that had been infested with the Canker Worm for several 

 years, and the owner said that they were obliged to buy apples for 

 apple butter this yeajr. This represents the condition in many 

 orchards infest(^d by Canker Worm. In the orchard referred to 

 about one-fourth the limbs were dead. 



I think the farmers can be greatly benefited by the demonstration 

 orchards and by reading our Zoological Bulletins. As a rule, the 

 farmers are more ignorant reg-arding the care of the trees and are 

 more indifferent concerning them than they are of any other branch 

 of agriculture. 



*This shows what we have found many times, that owners of trees often injure them with 

 spray materials but do not know when this is done or do not recognize the effects resulting 

 from such materials, and notwithstanding this fact are often satisfied and even give recom- 

 mendations for such commercial preparations. We also find that frequently the scale Is not 

 checked by the spray material usod and even if the trees are not directly injured the loss 

 will in time be considerable from the continued effect of the scale. The owners frequently do 

 not know this and believe that the results have been much better than they really were. It 

 Is only when such careful Investigations as these herein mentioned are made that owners who 

 wish to save their trees can be Instructed as to the result which they have obtained and the 

 materials beit to use for these pests.— H. A. S. 



