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Entomologists economical and effective means of control were de- 

 veloped. Thousands of fruit growers who have this pest upon 

 their premises now keep it fully under control, and are producing 

 as profitable crops of fruit as were ever produced before this 

 pest was introduced. In fact, the entire peach-growing industry 

 of Georgia owes its very existence to the fact that Prof. W. M. 

 Scott, the first State Entomologist of that State, demonstrated 

 that the lime-sulphur washes would effectively and cheaply hold 

 this enemy in check. The annual peach crop of Georgia ranges 

 in value from $500,000 to $1,000,000, and is constantly increas- 

 ing. This very considerable addition to the wealth of that State 

 is thus the result of the work done by entomologists upon one 

 single injurious insect. 



Space cannot be taken here to refer even briefly to the suc- 

 cess which has followed the application of the remedial measures 

 devised and advocated by entomologists and other scientists for 

 insects and plant diseases how the grape-pylloxera, an Ameri- 

 can insect introduced into Southern Europe many years ago r 

 caused enormous damage and threatened to destroy the immense 

 vine industries of France and other European countries, and 

 how its control was ultimately accomplished by simple measures, 

 how the destructive grasshoppers of the North are now destroyed 

 b: the "Griddle mixture", how the chinch-bugs of the Central 

 Mississippi Valley States are often destroyed by a contagious dis- 

 ease artificially distributed among them, how the orange-growing 

 industry of California was saved by an entomologist bringing a 

 lady bird beetle from a foreign country to destroy the cottony 

 cushion-scale, etc. 



In the cultural remedy for the boll weevil we have the means 

 of avoiding the bulk of the threatened damage by this pest, 

 and it now remains for the cotton planter in the weevil-infested 

 section to put these cultural measures into operation and meet 

 with the success which farmers elsewhere have attained by apply- 

 ing the remedial steps advocated by entomologists for other insect 

 pests. 



It may not be out of place to remark, in this connection, 

 that were the farmers in the infested section to universally prac- 

 tice the early fall destruction of the cotton plants, there would in 

 all probability come a season sooner or later when climatic and 



