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same time, there is an undue development and dissemination of 

 the insects throughout the United States; and not only this 

 country, but practically we might say the entire world. Here 

 is an insect which has become so thoroughly established that at 

 the present time it has become a factor so important that every 



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Fig. 8. — Peach orchard dying from San Jose scale. 

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phase of fruit-growing almost must be considered when we con- 

 sider this question. It may not only involve federal legislation, 

 but international legislation as well. Think for a moment what 

 this pest is costing in the way of quarantines of nursery stock. 

 A foreign quarantine has been established against us, and it is not 

 only keeping our nursery stock, but our fruit from some territor- 

 ies. If we come in at all with trees or fruit it must be subject 



