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This does not involve a complex system at all, for a few very simple 

 reports and plats furnish it all. The cost of this system of inspection 

 since April, 1895, and the acres examined, number of trees found 

 infested each year to date in Eiverside division, has been as follows : 



Period. 



Cost of in- 

 spection. 



Acres in- 

 spected. 



Trees 

 found in- 

 fested. 



1895, 9 months, April to December 31 



18% 



$4, 964. 97 

 3, 936. 19 



3, 503. 31 



4, 015. 04 

 3, 734. 68 



4, 523 

 4,678 

 4, 125 

 4,680 

 4,980 



8, 375 

 7,580 



1897 



6,670 



1898 



5,888 

 1,637 









In this State fruit trees over 4 years old are taxed. In this county 

 an agreement has been made whereby the money raised from this tax 

 is available for the work of the horticultural commission. It is divided 

 between the three divisions, each division receiving the money raised 

 by the tax on the trees within its limits. 



Under this arrangement Eiverside has never used her full share of 

 the money in any year since 1894. 



The expense given in the above table covers also the cost of tbe 

 quarantine work; in fact, all of. the expense of the Eiverside division 

 except the work of eradication. 



The following is the form of report each inspector makes covering 

 operations in his district: 



Report of fruit pest inspecting done and time of each inspector working in -— — 



division , district during . 



Inspector in Charge. 



Assistants. 







Kind of 















CD CJC 











trees, 















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ERADICATION. 



Efficient methods for destroying insect pests are fully as important 

 as careful work in inspection. The pest which has given the most 

 trouble is the red scale; other scale pests have either never gotten a 

 foothold or else have been checked by parasites or natural causes. The 

 hydrocyanic-acid gas treatment is the one that has been generally used 

 on citrus trees, and it has been almost uniformly successful. 



