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100-gallon truck and other apparatus, can be bought for $35, 

 and is just what is needed for use in the field or street. 



In regard to scraping the bark off, since we have the arse- 

 nate of lead spray I don't think there is need of it. Taking 

 all the bark off the tree certainly has a tendency to make its 

 bark too thin for winter protection, and is liable to injure 

 the tree. I have had pretty good success. In Florence I 

 commenced spraying about five years ago, and we have 

 practically exterminated the beetle. 



The question has been asked about the killing of the 

 trees. You can go through Longmeadow, a town that has 

 been neglected, they haven't sprayed at all, and see the 

 ends of the trees dying. If you neglect the tree, it is 

 certain to die. If the trees are not sprayed, they will 

 commence to die down. 



Dr. H. T. FERNALD (of Amherst). It seems to me there 

 are some items that should be spoken of with reference to 

 how far our authorities permit us to enter upon private prop- 

 erty for the control of noxious pests. That question, I think, 

 is one of the most important we shall have to deal with in 

 the next fifty years, because the number of insect pests is 

 spreading rapidly all over the country, and they are not pay- 

 ing any attention to property lines or fences. The park or 

 the city authorities may clear all the public ground of those 

 noxious pests, but if they are unable to control those pests 

 on private grounds, and the owners of those grounds do not 

 co-operate with the public authorities in the matter, any 

 attempts come to no result. The question has recently been 

 discussed as to the power of public authorities to enter pri- 

 vate grounds for those purposes, in a meeting of official hor- 

 ticultural inspectors of the United States, held at Washington 

 some two weeks ago. At that time it was decided that the 

 present laws in most of our States are very defective, in that 

 they do not make clear that the authorities have a right to 

 enter upon private property, or in some States they said that 

 they have no such right, and that a person so entering upon 

 private property is liable to a suit for damages. It was the 

 sentiment of that convention, at which I was present, that 

 this was a very unfortunate condition of affairs, but never- 



