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further advised not to hold the no'///Ae near a branch, or to pause 

 at any one place, for in such cases death to the branch usually 

 results. 



" To the casual observer it would seem that the people who 

 have used crude oil devote so much of their attention to the niceties 

 of spraying-, in order to prevent injury to trees, that the original 

 cause for treatment, the scale, is almost forgotten. JOxcept in one 

 orchard very little thorough work was seen, and I should think it 

 probable that not over SO per cent, of the scale insects on treated 

 orchards throughout the Island had been destroyed." 



