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applicable for one of the orchards which have been developed 

 on top of the Alleghany mountains, where there are some 

 places which have been planted with trees that you can almost 

 sit down by turning around, it is so steep. We must consider 

 that condition. We must study the scale in each of these 

 differing localities. We cannot sit down and be content with 

 studying the life history, but we must get out into the field 

 and observe it under dififerent and varying conditions. The 

 man who is going to be successful against this pest has got to 

 take his coat ofif and his shirt too, if necessary, and get out 

 and work. Get your coat ofif, therefore, and get out early in 

 the morning and study the conditions, and work out this 

 problem for yourself so far as you can, and we scientific men 

 will do all we can to help guide the work along effective lines. 

 Let us go up close to our friend Garfield, and see what 

 they have in Michigan. Fig. ii shows the system of enclos- 

 ing the tree in a big canvas tent and destroying the scale by 

 fumigation. At the same t:'me, what could you do with a big 

 canvas tent in an orchard where the trees are planted twenty 

 feet apart and overlap five feet, as is the case in Mr. Morrill's 

 orchard? This will give you an idea of the conditions we have 

 to meet every day. To go a step further, if you go up on 

 the Blue Ridge mountains you will find orchards on ground so 

 hilly and covered with rocks and stones, and so steep that you 

 couldn't even get in among the trees with a team or with any 

 such apparatus. Again, what would you do if you went up 

 on the Alleghany mountains and found an orchard so steep 

 that you could not get in with a wagon? Yet we have to con- 

 sider all these conditions in providing for efifective remedies 

 against this pest. Now let us consider an orchard like one of 

 Mr. Hale's in Georgia. Just as far as the eye can reach, the 

 trees stretch away in a straight row. If the scale should strike 

 into territory such as that, you must bear in mind, it would 

 be a pretty important question of dollars and cents to treat 

 that orchard of over 250,000 trees. On the Eastern Shore of 

 Maryland, one can find as fine orchards as ever grew. At 

 the same time one can walk all over that peninsula and not 

 find a stone big enough to mash a mosquito. Orchards like 

 these present one condition, and orchards like those in the 



