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wants to be commercially successful he must spray. In my opinion, 

 scale will be universal, despite any legislative methods that can 

 be offered to prevent it, in all the sections in which the insect 

 naturally propagates. It will spread over all the country where 

 peach growing is an industry. The northern limits of peach 

 growing seem to be about the northern limits of the natural 

 development of that insect which we brought over from Japan. 

 Just in that connection we ought to have a strict quarantine and 

 inspection law against foreign insects. We ought to keep them 

 out; but after an insect of that kind gets in, it is very difficult to 

 legislate it from one State to another State. I think, then, that 

 it is an individual problem with the grower. The successful grower 

 is the man who will keep after his orchard day in and day out, 

 and he is the only man who will succeed. I do not believe, in the 

 light of my present understanding of the problem, that legislation 

 will do much to restrict scale or help the man who sprays well. 

 He must spray well anyway ; he must take care of his orchard. 



