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not. I think it is well known, as has been stated, that this 

 San Jose scale pest is infesting all the towns of the state, and 

 in the cities like Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport the rose 

 bushes, and flowers, and the ornamental shrubs are more or 

 less covered. I moved a tree of the shrub order for a wealthy 

 person in New Haven a year ago, and it was simply covered 

 with the scale, and it lived but a short time. I told the gar- 

 dener at the place that there was no use, but he did not know 

 what it was. I know its prevalence all over the state, and I 

 think I can go to places where roses and different ornamental 

 shrubs are sold in this state and find it. I think it is being 

 widely distributed from such points, and unless we can get 

 some legislation, or some power that will back up our present 

 experiment station men in making examinations, or get some- 

 thing to defray their expenses, it will be like calling the doctor 

 when the patient is in the last stages of pneumonia. Whatever 

 we do now will go just so far towards eradicating it. I think 

 it is doubtful if it is possible to even eradicate it now, but I 

 think it will be a much harder matter to do it five years from 

 now, as Mr. Hale speaks about." 



Mr. Hale: "All that my good brother on the left has 

 said may be true, and all that Brother Sternberg says is true, 

 but it is not the whole case. We want to consider not the 

 interest of this Society, but the interest of the state of Con- 

 necticut. We do not want to give the General Assembly the 

 idea that this is a notion of a particular Society, but we want 

 them to understand that all the other agricultural interests, 

 and all the owners of land and trees and shrubs are equally 

 interested with us. If we sound this note of warning, and 

 then leave the matter to the Committee on Agriculture of 

 the General Assembly, it seems to me that is all we should do. 

 They have the power to originate any bill they see fit. The 

 bills will finally come to them anyway, and instead of this 

 Society originating a special bill, and fathering it all through, 

 why not turn the matter over to the committee who acts for 

 all the agricultural interests of the state and let them prepare 

 a bill for themselves after all interests have been consulted. 

 Then you will have the whole allied agricultural interests of 

 the state united in support of the bill." 



