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State institution, desired to have the honor and the privileges pertain- 
ing to the office, and, between them all, failure has resulted. I should 
like to see California with a competent State Entomologist appointed, 
under a bill carefully drawn up providing his duties, by the governor, 
upon recommendation of the professor of agriculture in your State uni- 
versity, and the president of such other State horticultural and agricul- 
tural bodies as may exist. In this manner the interests of all these 
bodies might be considered, and the State could not, in my judgment, 
make a more profitable investment than in the creation of such an office. 
IMPORTATION OF PARASITES. 
It has doubtless occurred to many of you that it would be very desir- 
able to introduce from Australia such parasites as serve to keep this 
fluted scale in check in its native laud. We have already seen that 
there is one minute parasite which has, in all probability, been brought 
over with it from Australia, and there is no question but that it is very 
desirable to introduce any such of its enemies and parasites as can be 
introduced. This State— yes, even Los Angeles County — could well 
afford to appropriate a couple of thousand dollars for no other purpose 
than the sending of an expert to Australia to devote some months to 
the study of these parasites there and to their artificial introduction here. 
But the agent must be an expert entomologist, and his selection should 
be left to some competent authority. The result for good, in the end, 
would be a million-fold, and I have no fear but what you, as orange- 
growers, will appreciate the force of this statement. I would not hesi- 
tate, as United States Entomologist, to send some one there with the 
consent of the Commissioner of Agriculture, were the means for the 
purpose at my command ; but unfortunately, the mere suggestion that 
I wanted $1,500 or $2,000 for such a purpose would be more apt to cause 
laughter and ridicule on the part of the average committee in Congress 
than serious and earnest consideration, and the action of the last Con- 
gress has rendered any such work impossible by limiting investigation 
to the United States. 
REMARKS CONFINED TO THE ORANGE. 
Let me, in closing, lay stress on the fact that I have, in all that has 
been said relating to remedies, had reference solely to the orange and 
the scale insects affecting it. 
The Fluted Scale is undoubtedly the most difficult to master, and the 
means I have recommended against it apply equally to your other 
orange scales, as experiment has already demonstrated. Tour Red 
Scale, in some respects even worse than the Icerya, and of which I 
should like to say something in detail did time permit, succumbs to it. 
But when it comes to the treatment of deciduous trees, much that I 
have said will not apply, and each tree needs separate consideration 
and is affected differently by different washes. 
