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we mast teach the people of this State when we get home, that the success 

 of fruit business depends upon persistent efforts, using the remedies that 

 are offered. 



Dr. Kimball: I remember the good book tells us about the men who 

 went to spy out the land and who brought back a great account of it, that 

 the men were large, the cities had high walls, and the warriors were valiant, 

 and they thought the best thing that the children of Israel could do would 

 be to turn back and wander around in the wilderness; but there were two 

 men that gave a different report; they were fearless men and they con- 

 cluded to go forward and they went forward to occupy the land, and his- 

 tory tells us what has been the fortune of that country and of the men. I 

 apprehend that my friend lacks a little of the faith, a little of the hope and 

 spirit of perseverance that I believe fills the hearts of all of our fruit grow- 

 ers — when we come to consider the obstacles that we have to meet. I believe 

 that the experience of mankind teaches us that there are no obstacles so 

 great but what persistent united effort will successfully banish. I believe 

 that it only requires a persistent united effort to keep these insects in check, 

 and that there is no variety of insect pests that now overrun our State but 

 that if people will use the information that they now have, persistently — not 

 one man here and another there, but every one, small orchardists as well as 

 large, that before long these insects will disappear. Nature seems to work 

 in a period of cycles; in 1853 I was in the island of Mauritius in the 

 Indian Ocean; there they were extensively engaged in the raising of sugar, 

 one of the most productive islands on the face of the globe; there was 

 there at that time, an insect which resembled this leery a purchasi, and it 

 filled the planters of that island with gloom. It permeated every planta- 

 tion from the sea to the mountain; but still the people had faith, and in 

 time, by united efforts of their own they kept on and the cycle came 

 around when that insect has entirely disappeared there; I was talking 

 with a Catholic priest who had lived there many years and he said it had 

 become perfectly innocuous, that it did not produce any more trouble among 

 the planters; and this scale that we have here, this Icerya purchasi, resem- 

 bles it very much; from my memory of it they were entirely similar, but 

 I am informed that Professor Riley says that there is a difference, that one 

 is smooth and the other is fluted, but they were apparently of the same 

 nature. 



I believe that there is something to be hoped for from this parasite of 

 the scale which is being imported here under the auspices of the State 

 Board of Horticulture. Mr. Kiee has had a number of specimens sent to 

 him, and he is now engaged in propagating in San Mateo County a small 

 fly that deposits the egg in this bug and the egg developes and destroys the 

 insect, and it goes on with an endless multiplication. I believe that we 

 may expect much from these parasites, and as I told the convention at 

 Riverside I believe that that is to be one of the great sources of success to 

 import and cultivate these parasites, because nature surely has a way of 

 wiping out or removing that obstacle. I believe it is our duty instead of 

 succumbing to the bug, to work, to fight, and that we will succeed in rais- 

 ing good crops of fruit in spite of all these difficulties. I know our neigh- 

 bors in San Lorenzo have been particularly cursed, we have had the canker 

 worm, we had to band all our trees with a preparation of paper and to tar 

 the paper every other day from January to April, in order to keep the foli- 

 age from being eaten off; but the cycle has come around and there is not 

 now a canker worm to be found in the county; and so I apprehend with 

 these other pests, that they will be self-limited and that in time they will 



