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I do not think the nurserymen are the only ones to be 

 protected. There is many a man who has a fine orchard 

 that is more or less infested. You ought to see the twigs 

 sent to me with questions as to the San Jose scale. I really 

 begin to think that the orchards of our State are composedi 

 of nothing but twigs. It seems as though there should be J 

 somebody who has the right and the time to help people in 

 such cases, to go and see what they have. 



As to its distribution, I only have a bit of personal 

 knowledge on that matter. We had two apple trees that 

 were infested with the San Jose scale. It was the first time 

 I had seen it. The trees were found to be infested with 

 what I supposed was the San Jose scale. To make sure, I 

 sent portions of them to Washington for determination there 

 by the entomologists, and they informed me that my deter- 

 mination was right. These were placed in the greenhouse 

 connected with the insectary. We kept them until late 

 enough in the season for them to hatch. Professor Howard 

 of Washington, who has probably studied this scale more 

 than anybody else in this country, thought they could not 

 endure the climate farther north than what is called the 

 upper Austral region. But we found them right here, and 

 the circumstances were such that we knew they had lived 

 here at least one winter, so we found it could endure our 

 climate. They spread all over the trees, and yet I could 

 not find where they came from. They also spread onto 

 other trees several feet away within the greenhouse. I did 

 not carry them there ; the winds did not ; my assistants did 

 not ; I know of no way that they could have spread except 

 that the flies would light on the trees and these young scales 

 have seized on these flies and been carried by them. If that 

 could be done in the greenhouse, it could be done in an 

 orchard. I believe they are distributed to near-by places by 

 means of insects of different kinds, and that will account for 

 distribution in one way. 



I believe we need some legislative help in the restriction 

 of this insect. I have known a number of instances where 

 tree pedlers have brought them in here and sold them to 

 our people, and did not know it. 



Mr. Hale. Just one business point. He seems to think 



