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Dr. White: I have only this to say in regard to the white scale: It has 

 been before this assembly often. We have had various remedies, many of 

 them efficient in killing the scale, for it is not difficult to kill. The great 

 trouble is its wondrous cunning and its habits. It multiplies three times 

 every summer, and is armed with a lance-like beak that will penetrate any 

 poison you may cover the tree with, and draw its nutriment from the inner 

 bark, so that it is difficult to kill, unless you can find something that when 

 it touches the body of the insect will kill it. 



Milton Thomas, of Los Angeles: The white scale was brought into Los 

 Angeles on some orange trees from Australia. They first appeared on a 

 place that was at that time a fine orchard of deciduous and citrus fruits. 

 As time passed on the scale took possession of the orange trees, and they 

 were grubbed up. There were pepper trees, apple, peach, plum, and, in 

 fact, all kinds of deciduous fruit trees in the orchard; but in less than a 

 year after the orange trees were taken up the white scale disappeared, and 

 those deciduous trees stand there to-day uninjured. I have an orchard of 

 one hundred and twenty acres of deciduous trees, and I am willing that a 

 man may take a peck, or any amount, and put them in that orchard, my 

 faith is so strong; and I think I know something in reference to bugs on 

 deciduous trees. While I am on the floor I want to say, in reference to the 

 letter just read, that Mr. Snow is a man who stands high as a man of the 

 strictest integrity and veracity, and what he said you can take for granted 

 it is true. 



Mr. White: I will ask Mr. Thomas whether the orange trees in and 

 about Los Angeles are in a thrifty condition, or whether the scale has 

 injured them? 



Mr. Thomas: I will say that in the City of Los Angeles, as a great many 

 people know, it has been cut up into lots and sold and houses built on a great 

 many orchards, and those orchards were abandoned and the scale has taken 

 possession. I have a large place inside of the city; an orange orchard. I 

 do not think that there is a scale on it and orchards adjacent to the city. 

 You get out a little distance to the south and there is no scale to my knowl- 

 edge, but inside of the city the scale has ruined the trees because people 

 have abandoned them and cut their property into building lots. 



Mr. White: Please state what you know of the scale about Pasadena? 



Mr. Thomas: Pasadena is the same as Los Angeles. Immediately around 

 Pasadena, as you are well aware, it has been cut up into town lots and 

 houses built on them, and orchards abandoned, and where those orchards 

 have been abandoned they have not been irrigated, and the trees have lat- 

 terly been destroyed, and, there is scale on those trees; but when you get 

 out a mile or two I think there is none. 



Mr. I. A. Wilcox, of Santa Clara: I think we can better employ our time 

 in discussing what we can best do in keeping them under subjection than 

 in trying to destroy all of them. Now as to the white scale, I have seen 

 it in the Wolfskill orchard, and I can readily understand that you can kill 

 most of them, but not get them all. That is the case with the pernicious 

 scale. I am inclined to think that where the climate is warm it will do 

 better than with us. Now I am not looking for any new remedies. I am 

 using for this pernicious scale what we have had for a long time, and it 

 keeps it down. I sold some pears last year from an orchard six or eight 

 years old, and I do not think you can see a single one showing there was a 

 scale, and I washed those trees every year since I started, for the scale. I 

 used the common wash, the sal soda with whale oil; that is all I have used 

 for three years, and it is the cheapest wash. We must not give up fighting 

 the scale; we live in a climate where insects have the best show of life, and 



