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be disheartened as Mr. Hall; he was discouraged at first. I remember 

 when he first purchased his orchard in Penryn; he took me into it, and I 

 saw the ravages of the San Jose scale, and I thought it would be as cheap 

 to cut them down and destroy them; he did not do it, and this year, to my 

 knowledge, he has had a very fine crop of fruit, and our people are not 

 discouraged on account of these insect pests. We feel that we have to 

 work to keep these insects under; we do not hope for their annihilation at 

 once, but we hope that the time will come when they may be exterminated. 

 They may be exterminated by the processes of nature, but we do not 

 expect it in the near future, but the time may be hastened by what we can 

 do, and we can keep them in subjection so that it will be possible to run 

 this industry of fruit growing without fear of its failing. 



We should not be discouraged, the whole world has something to con- 

 tend with, but we must do our share in proportion as we extend the fruit 

 industry, and as we extend the fruit industry in proportion, we shall find 

 ways and means to keep the insects in subjection, and to aid the produc- 

 tion of our fine fruits. As far as the cottony cushion scale is concerned, 

 we have none in our county — that is, generally, the Sierra foothill counties 

 have not been troubled to any extent. At the same time it has been gen- 

 erally expressed that we are subject to it. I remember a year ago at Santa 

 Rosa, a gentleman said that there was no section of our country that was 

 free from it. They are liable to be infested, but I think from the experience 

 of some of the gentlemen in the south, notably the gentleman from National 

 City, that they can be exterminated. When south about a year ago, I 

 found the Riverside orchards entirely free from the cottony cushion scale, 

 and some prominent gentlemen who are in a position to be thoroughly 

 posted, said they knew of none in Riverside. They did not claim but 

 what they were liable to have it, but they proposed to take vigorous meas- 

 ures to exterminate it if they found it and then keep it out. It seems from 

 the testimony of many of these gentlemen that it is not necessary for 

 them to get a foothold, and when they don't they can be exterminated, 

 can be kept down, and we can preserve our fruit-growing industry without 

 being very seriously disturbed. 



Dr. A. F. White, of Santa Rosa, moved that a committee of three be 

 appointed to consider the subject of the German method of treating insect 

 pests and to report. 



Motion carried. 



The President appointed on said committee Dr. A. F. White, Hon. S. J. 

 Stabler, and Dr. Edwin Kimball. 



The convention here adjourned until the following morning at nine 

 o'clock. 



