LIVE STOCK BREEDERS. 159 



The fruit tree bark beetle has appeared in Missouri in recent years, 

 I do not know when it first came, but in late years it has been creating 

 great ravages among the orchards of Missouri. We have discovered 

 a remedy for it. If, therefore, your orchards are attacked by the fruit 

 tree bark beetle, all you have to do is to send a postal card to Columbia 

 and we will tell you how to deal with this pest. The fruit tree leaf 

 roller is now perhaps creating more damage among the orchards of 

 South Missouri than any other known insect. It has appeared recentlv 

 in dangerous quantities. It crossed the border from Kansas — a great 

 many bad things come from Kansas and some good things, too — but 

 we have discovered a remedy for the fruit tree leaf roller pest, and if 

 your orchards are troubled with that pest, it will cost you one cent 

 to find out how to protect your orchards against this pest. 



The curculio, a creature that stings the apple, has been doing 

 great damage in the Ozark region, and many of the apples of the Ozark 

 region are now classed as No. 2, instead of No. i, on account of this 

 insect. If you are troubled with the curculio, send a postal to Columbia 

 and we will tell you how to dispose of him by a process cheap and 

 easy of application. The great trouble is that the fruit growers of 

 this State, in spite of the vast amount of literature that we send out, 

 do not seem to know that there is an Experiment Station at Columbia 

 that stands like a wall of defense between the orchards of Missouri and 

 the pests that prey upon them. 



San Jose scale made its appearance in Missouri eight or ten years 

 ago. The history of it is a little interesting: The Federal government 

 issued a bulletin charging a firm in Missouri with having distributed 

 this pest over the State. We investigated the matter and proved most 

 conclusively that the nursery in question had not distributed the scale 

 at all, but that it had been distributed by a New Jersey firm which had 

 sent them some stock damaged by San Jose scale which they refused 

 to accept ; but instead of having it sent back, they distributed it among 

 all their buyers in Missouri and the San Jose scale was distributed in 

 that way, and in our bulletins we cleared the nursery of that charge. 

 We tried in vain to wake Missouri to the danger of spreading the San 

 Jose scale over the State, we tried to scare the Legislature, and there is 

 reason for the people to be scared abuot it, but the Legislature said, 

 "They want an appropriation up there at Columbia." We do want it. 

 We want one to hold the San Jose scale in check. The station in the 

 University has been fighting single handed for six or eight years against 

 the San Jose scale, and while it is increasing in Missouri, it has been 

 inci easing at a slow rate because of the work that we have done. When 

 a man writes us that the San Jose scale seems to have appeared in his 



