8 BULLETIN 161, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



no lasting beneficial results will follow such work as has been carried 

 on in Bermuda unless extermination is the object in view. The value 

 of the fruit grown in Bermuda is not sufficient to warrant work being 

 carried on with any other object. In no country where the fly now 

 exists could work of extermination be undertaken with such assur- 

 ances of success as in Bermuda. If clean cultural work were supported 

 continuously by adequate legislation and undertaken by a person suf- 

 ficiently conversant with the problem and eager to make a unique 

 record in the entomological world, the Mediterranean fruit fly could 

 be exterminated from Bermuda within three years, without the ex- 

 penditure of a prohibitive amount of money. 



WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1914 



