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boasted beauty of Pomona yields to the cruel ravages of 

 this relentless enemy. 



So it must ever be, and as God has declared that 

 man must earn his bread by tne sweat of his brow, so to 

 enjoy all the good things of earth He has given us, we 

 must be watchful of them and labor for their protection. 

 I believe it to be the duty of the State to act at once for 

 her fruit interests now so seriously menaced by enemies 

 on every hand. Look at France ; her industries and 

 almost her very existence saved by the work of one 

 man, the great and illustrious Pasteur. With a faithful 

 wife and daughter, for five years did he diligently investi- 

 gate the silk worm disease, and now from that study the 

 origin of the trouble is traced to the moth with peculiar 

 concentric rings. These moths are all destroyed now in 

 silk culture, or rather their eggs are destroyed, and those 

 eggs only are saved from moth, free from rings. These, 

 hatching, form cocoons and the silk crop is assured. So 

 again he has immortalized himself and rendered France 

 unbounded service by his investigations into the fermen- 

 tation of wine and destroying the germs by high tempera- 

 ture. So with the cattle and sheep pests has he wrestled 

 and conquered, as well as with the diseases of the vines. 



Given the opportunity, and the world will turn up 

 Pasteurs as occasion will demand ; and now right on this 

 Peninsula, we have the opportunity for just such a man. 

 Here we have peach yellows, pear blight, the rust of 



