where the once flourishing peach and apricot industry 
was destroyed. All round the Mediterranean horticul¬ 
ture declined wherever the fly appeared. Outbreaks of 
the fly in France created havoc in the orchards as far 
north as Paris and it is principally owing to this pest 
that first-class, uninfected fruit has become so expen¬ 
sive a luxury in Europe that the ordinary man can not 
afford to buy it. 
“Twenty-five 
years ago this fly 
checked the de¬ 
velopment of the 
promising fruit in¬ 
dustries of South 
Africa and Aus¬ 
tralia. 
“In 1910 the fly 
was discovered 
round Honolulu in 
the Hawaiian Is¬ 
lands. At one leap 
it had gone across 
4,000 miles of open 
sea; only 2,000 
miles away were a 
million acres of 
orchards and vine¬ 
yards, the great¬ 
est, most valuable horticultural area in all the world. 
“But ‘they shall not pass,’ said the Californians.’ 7 
Hence the action of the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture to prevent the importation of 
products into California from all other States and 
countries known to have pests. 
Should the fruit fly get into California’s fruit 
and vegetables these would not only be destroyed 
but other States now buying largely of these 
products would refuse to permit them to be 
shipped within their borders. 
What the Mediterranean Fruit Fly 
Does to Hawaiian Oranges 
BAGGAGE INSPECTION 
Upon arrival at Los Angeles Harbor by Officers of the 
** United States Department of Agriculture to Protect 
the Fruit Growing Industry of California Against the 
Introduction of the Greatly Dreaded 
MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY 
The Mediterranean Fruit Fly Laying its Eggs in the 
Rind of an Hawaiian Orange 
When it is realized that a single fruit fly , its eggs or 
maggots, brought into California in fruit or plant from 
the Hawaiian Islands would threaten the partial or 
entire destruction of California’s great fruit growing 
industry, the earnest co-operation of every passenger 
from Honolulu is requested to keep this pest out of 
the State. 
Los Angeles Steamship Company 
Fortnightly Sailings to Honolulu Direct from Los Angeles 
General Ticket Office— 
517 SOUTH SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 
