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fruit growers. They should organize, in every fruit-growing section of the 

 State, horticultural societies. Every fruit grower, however small his 

 possessions may be, should become a member, and every member should 

 regularly attend the meetings. The local Inspector of Fruit Pests and 

 Quarantine Guardian should have at all times the full and vigorous moral 

 support of every member. 



It is notorious that in many fruit-growing sections of the State some 

 orchardists annually expend much time and money in spraying, cleansing, 

 and pursuing other well known modes in exterminating pests, while adjoin- 

 ing owners neglect their orchards, knowing them to be infested, thereby 

 affording a hotbed and breeding place for the worst of pests. Vigorous and 

 well directed efforts, and a thorough and efficient concert of action, seems 

 to be what is needed. Efficient remedies are known to the skilled pomolo- 

 gist, and can be ascertained and procured by every one. They should 

 always be applied at the full standard of strength, and in the most thor- 

 ough and exhaustive manner, and by every one who has an infested tree. 

 A community can be infested from one tree planted in a houseyard, and 

 it is highly important that every fruit grower should be well versed in the 

 time of application. When the insect is in its incipient state it is much 

 more easily killed than when it approaches maturity and takes on its defen- 

 sive armor. 



Every infested tree should be repeatedly and thoroughly cleansed at the 

 proper time, and in default thereof immediately removed and destroyed. 

 From a limited experience I am convinced that apathy on the part of the 

 fruit growers of California is the best friend that the insect pest has as yet 

 found. Persons who have but a few fruit trees for family use seem to be 

 the most careless in respect to their condition. They obtain their income 

 from some business, other than fruit growing, and therefore give their trees 

 little or no attention. Of course it would not pay the latter class of per- 

 sons to purchase and keep in order a full complement of appliances for the 

 destruction of pests, or to learn from others versed in the matter the most 

 approved remedies for that purpose, but the fact still exists that the dis- 

 semination of these little enemies to the orchard, comes largely from the 

 foul trees of the small grower; therefore, it should be obligatory on the part 

 of such owners, to either keep their trees in a healthy state, or else remove 

 them. Almost any progressive orchardist would apply the remedies for a 

 nominal consideration, his main benefit accruing from the fact of the 

 destruction of the pests. 



This should be brought about and rendered compulsory by stringent statu- 

 tory enactments, or by a strong public opinion, or by the watchful care and 

 persistent importunity of local societies of intelligent pomologists, or by all 

 of these agencies. 



Many of the intelligent, experienced, and progressive California orchard- 

 ists seem to be derelict in contending against the spread of injurious insects. 

 They do not vouchsafe to the subject the importance it deserves. They do 

 not realize that unless prompt and vigorous preventive measures are pur- 

 sued their property is constantly deteriorating. It is not enough to wait 

 until the enemy appears and appreciable damage is done, before action is 

 taken. A preventive is always better than a cure. The orchardist should 

 be untiring in his warfare. He should disinfect and spray upon knowing 

 the threatened danger, and that too with the same regularity that he prunes 

 and cultivates, regardless of labor, and almost regardless of expense. 



The continuous and necessary custom of transporting scions and nursery 

 trees to and from all parts of the country, of itself foreshadows the danger, 



