DOINGS OF OTHER SOCIETIES. 



ing that a few years ago it was thought 

 by scientists that it would not live east 

 of the Rockies, but now it had establish- 

 ed itself in New Jersery and other states, 

 and was committing untold depreda- 

 tions. It was now occurring injuriously 

 in all the fruit growing states with the 

 exception in the east of New Hampshire, 

 Vermont, Maine, and Rhode Island. 

 Hundreds of thousands of trees had 

 been destroyed within the past few years. 

 He regretted to announce that the San 

 Jose scale had appeared in a few places 

 in the peach belt of Ontario and in 

 British Columbia. The Ontario Gov- 

 ernment had legislated that all trees 

 affected with it should be destroyed, 

 and one-third their value paid by the 

 Government. 



" There is at the present time," said 

 Dr. Fletcher, "urgent demand being 

 made on the Dominion Minister of 

 Agriculture to legislate for the total 

 prohibition of all nursery stock being 

 imported from the States into Canada. 

 I have not seen my way to recommend 

 this, so serious is it to interfere with 

 established channels of trade. The 

 Minister of Agriculture wishes an ex- 

 pression of opinion from this society 

 with regard to the advisability of pass- 

 ing the law demanded. I shall not say 

 that the San Jose scale will not enter the 

 Province of Quebec. I did not think 

 it would get into Ontario, but it has. I 

 warn you to take all precautions against 

 it. I advise you to get your nur.sery 

 stock in Canada, for the Northern States 

 are infested with the most dangerous 

 pest ever known It is not worth your 

 while to take the risk by buying stock 

 in the United States when you can get 

 it equally good or better in Canada. I 

 cannot tell you whether the Canadian 

 Government will pass legislation on the 

 matter, but you can commence by pro- 

 tecting yourselves. We have tried not 



to create unnecessary alarm, but matters 

 have become so serious that Canadians 

 must be warned against it." 



Mr. Brodie pointed out that the or- 

 chards near Montreal were in great dan- 

 ger because of the importation of Califor- 

 nia fruit. 



Dr. Fletcher said it would cause great 

 trouble if the importation of fruit were 

 prohibited, but at all events although the 

 scale was on the fruit, so far it was be- 

 lieved that it could not spread from it. 

 All the countries from which we took 

 fruit made it a misdemeanor to export 

 fruit infected with the San Jose scale. 



To Mr. Newman Dr. Fletcher stated 

 that the scale had not yet got into 

 Quebec. It affected every kind of tree 

 except conifers, and in New Jersey it 

 was believed that it had spread even to 

 the forest trees. This would -be deplor- 

 able in Canada. 



Rev. Mr. Hamilton advocated strin- 

 gent laws keeping out all United States 

 plants and trees. Canadians did not 

 need one of them. The United States 

 were fond of putting up Chinese walls 

 against Canada and we should retaliate 

 for our own protection. 



Prof. Fletcher pointed out that eighty 

 per cent, of our trees were imported from 

 the United States. • 



Mr. Fisk said that the birds carried 

 the scale from the United States to 

 Canada, and we could not legislate to 

 keep them out. 



Prof. Fletcher said every American 

 plant imported was now reported from 

 the Custom House to the Minister of 

 Agriculture and traced to its destination 

 and the consignee warned to be on his 

 guard. 



■ Mr. Crandall, the Canadian Govern- 

 ment trade agent in England, spoke on 

 the value of the British market for our 

 fruit exports. He said that the Provin- 

 cial Governments and the Dominion 



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