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San Jose Scale. — We are publish- 

 ing the full text of Mr. Dryden's San 

 Jose Scale Act. It makes it illegal 

 for any one to import or plant in- 

 fested trees, and takes power to inspect 

 all orchards and destroy all such trees 

 wherever found, allowing the owner a 

 quarter of their value as assigned by 

 the inspector. It is estimated that 

 about 3000 trees in our Province are 

 affected, and must be immediately de- 

 stroyed, in order to stamp out the pest. 

 This will be the work of the Province. 

 Then it will rest with the Dominion to 

 pass an Act that will prevent the intro- 

 duction of any more infested fruit or 

 fruit trees from the United States, for 

 unless the action of the Local House in 

 stamping it out, is sustained by the 

 Dominion in keeping it out, all our 

 efforts will be vain. 



Whole groves of forest trees have 



been destroyed in some sections of 

 the United States we have been in- 

 formed, as the only sure method of 

 checking the spread of the San Jose 

 Scale. A parasite is said to have been 

 found in California preying upon the 

 scale internally ; it is known as aphelinus 

 fuscipennis, a formidable enough name 

 to frighten any insect. It is said that 

 in California this parasite increases so 

 fast that it holds the pest in check. 

 Whether it would do the same for us in 

 Ontario is yet to be proved. 



A New Cold Storage Scheme — 

 We are much encouraged with the pros- 

 pects of improved accommodations next 

 summer, for the export of our valuable 

 fruit products. The great American 

 Cold Storage firm of Perkins & Weber, 

 Chicago, propose to build a great cen- 

 tral cold storage depot worth about 



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