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The CHAIRMAN: I understand the Doctor to ask for any expres- 

 sion in regard to the demonstrations; we had them in our county. 

 I had one on my place. Climatic conditions were against me, but 

 the neighbors came to see the demonstration. It was impossible to 

 spray one side of the trees; as fast as we sprayed, it blew away, and 

 the result was that there was very little good accomplished. One 

 of my neighbors had a young orchard which was badly infested with 

 the Scale, and he concluded he would try it again. There was one 

 tree that I thought was about dead, and advised him to cut it down, 

 but he said "there is life in it yet," and took advantage of the 

 weather, and sprayed it again, and to-day it is as thrifty a young 

 orchard as there is in the State. We have cut out the salt, as has 

 already been said. 



MR. LUTZ: I would like to talk, but I am troubled with paralysis, 

 and it is hard for me to speak; the paralysis has affected my speech; 

 but I would like to hear more of the subject, because Bedford 

 County, where I come from, is badly troubled with the Scale. One 

 man had twenty thousand trees and they all had Scale. 



The SECRETARY: This is a matter in Avhich the Department is 

 very deeply interested. I hope it will be freely and thoroughly dis- 

 cussed. What has the Department accomplished in this last year? 

 You will realize that the Department should not expect to rid the 

 entire State of the Scale the first year, or, in fact, that the State 

 should do it at all. All we expected was, that the demonstrator 

 should go over the Stale, and get the people interested, so as to do 

 the work for themselves. They should know where the Scale is 

 present, and what to do. It has been a sort of school, and we are 

 anxious to know what results have been accomplished. I was very 

 glad when Dr. Funk said he would like to hear. And I would like 

 to hear from the people who have had demonstrations in their 

 neighborhoods, or on their farms. 



MR. HERR: Will not this same subject come up this evening, 

 under the head of the Entomologist's Report? 



The SECRETARY: The only reason I hope there will be consider- 

 able said on this subject, is because we have the time. 



DR. FUNK: We have the people here, also, and the experts. 



MR. SCHWARZ: If the demonstrations made by the experts have 

 not been a success, it is because we could not get the people inter- 

 ested. I was sorry for the young man who came to our neighbor- 

 hood. I gave him my orchard, and we advertised it for weeks, but 

 we had only three people there. The most we had was eight people, 

 and they came there out of curiosity, and not as a matter of real 

 interest. It seems impossible to impress on the people of Pennsyl- 

 vania the terrible danger that is confronting them. If it has not 

 been a success, it is only because the farmers of Pennsylvania take 

 no interest in it. 



MR. CHUBBUCK: I would like to ask Dr. Funk, whether there is 

 anything in the manner of operating, or whether it is that the 

 operation itself has no effect, in a cave where it didn't do any good? 



