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undertaken, and we are fully satisfied that proper spraying will also 
pom sufficient in California. But so muc rk has been done 
so ny ti 
in the Wolfskill p at Los Angeles, which lead hes to believe 
that they have discovered a gas which possesses the nd. autes, 
and trees that had been treated and which we examined pretty carefully 
would seem to justify their hopes. Several ingenious movable-tent 
contrivances are also being developed in Los Angeles County that give 
promise of practical utility and feasibility, and which we may have 
AGES AROUND THE 'TRUNK.— There is alw ays danger that a tree 
onre sprayed will a reinfested on the insects that have not been 
ched i 
crawl up the trunk. y of the sticky bandages used for the canker- 
will cheek this ascent, but when placed directly on the trunk isa 
do more harm than good. They should be placed upon strips of ta 
otker stout paper or felting g, tied by a cord around the middle, the E 
end flared slightly outy zard, and the space between it and the trunk 
led wit soil, to pre he insects from creeping beneath. Cotton 
seas not be "used for this purpose, as birds for nesting purposes carry 
way ee of it containing the young insects, and thus help to 
dieti them 
CORCEUSON. —All possible care should be taken in cultivating and 
harvesting the erop to prevent dissemination of the young upon clothi g, 
re 
legislated against m an this Zcerya in California. Yet while some good 
has resu ulted, the laws have too often proved inoperative, either th mp. 
the negligence or ignorance of the officers appointed to execute then 
or, more often, the eE, ERER e of the courts and their unwillingness i 
enforce them with vigour. 
The IA has come to stay. No human endeavour can exterminate 
it. Bnt may be controlled, and while the greatest possible co- 
operation "utt be urged, aud, if possible, enforced, yet each orange- 
grower must in the end depend. upon his own ere ; and we say to 
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them, individually and collectively, that there no occasion for dis- 
couragement. ‘This insect has made profitable peeps, x | growing on the 
Pacific eoast more difficult and more of a scie ; but, by makin it 
impossible at the same time for the shiftless to pasaet | in their business, 
it will come to be looked upon as a not unmixed evil. 
