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liar ccMidilions. as they are liable to happen to a more or less 

 extent every summer during the mango season, and they go 

 far to prove what 1 have tried to impress upon the authorities 

 and others from the start, that it is useless to expect either a 

 perfect control of the Mediterranean fruit fly in Honolulu and 

 suburbs with a comparatively small ai)propriation and with- 

 out that unity and cooperation of all residents which is so 

 necessary in all artificial methods of control when these are 

 performed in non-commercial areas. AVithoiil such unity and 

 without such cooperation, even an appro()riati(>n of many more 

 thousands of dollars will not be as effective as it should be. 

 With conscientious and efficient work, however, clean culture 

 and allied artificial methods, together with the proper cooper- 

 ation of householders, will i)r(Kluce results in proportion to 

 the amount cx]5ended. To a great extent this has already 

 been manifest to proficient and unprejudiced investigators. 

 Such mechanical work when performed by all in a proper 

 spirit of cooperation can do no more than partially control 

 this pest. In a tropical country like ours the so-called eradi- 

 cation or extermination of such a pest as Mediterranean fruit 

 fly by mortal man is not possible. That it has been in a 

 measure controlled or lessened in numbers by climatic condi- 

 tions and artificial methods in other parts of the world is fairly 

 well accepted, but such countries as have recorded these facts 

 practically all have their fruits growing in orchards on a com- 

 mercial scale, and again some of them have a mild winter frost 

 which occasionally checks the pest, h'ew places have a similar 

 environment and tropical jungle of fruits all the year round 

 as we have at our back doors. To a more or less extent very 

 good results should obtain here, provided the same unity and 

 cooperation existed amongst all our residents as occurs in 

 other places where large commercial interests are at stake. 

 The ]K)int was raised by me early in the campaign as to the 

 desirability of expending such a comparati\ely small appro- 

 priation as that which we are working with and then exjicct- 

 ing great results in view of local economic ccinditions. not only 

 on this island, but also on others of the group. We have few 

 fruits of commercial importance other than the banana and 

 pine, and these latter, under Natural conditions, are so far not 

 attackefl by the fruit fly. When it is considered that artificial 

 methods of control, such as clean culture, spraying, etc., etc., 

 means a cotitinuity of immense ajipropriations, are not some 

 people expecting too great results all at once from a com- 

 paratively small fund? Even the $35,000 which it appears 

 Congress will eventually appropriate to assist in this cam- 

 l)aign will be hut a drop in the bucket consi<1ering the scat- 

 tered jungles of fruit trees in Honolulu and \icinity and the 

 wild and mountainous expanses of territory Iutc and on all 

 the islands. These large areas not only have the guava and 



