The herald., 1893-11-07


bility for the sentiments excregsedl
Something About Bugs.
EDITOR HERALD: ] have read with
much interest the articles which have
appeared in the HERALD from time tc
time for few weeks past on the scale
pest and its predaceous enemies, and in
common with many fruit-growing neigh
bore have learned much about scale buga
and parasites in California More il
being developed daily, and Indifference
If not something akin to Incompetence,
seems to be the rule with those who
ought to be engaged in stamping out
the destructive insects which are aE-
parently left to run riot all over this
county entirely uDmolested. Tha
numerous petitions sent in to the county
supervisors by fruit growers, and pub
lished in the HERALD at the time, affirm.
negligence and Incompetence and esh
for change in management. end rrge
as reason for the request that the yell
low or Florida ecale is inc; eaeiug
rapidly enough to cauee anxiety. Yet
no action hpa been taken apparently.
either ~ thoaa whose duty it 10 by vir-
TIE OF thola position and pay,
ef taa supervisors who provide the
pay. and the pernicious plague
gees right on. 1t is a most puzzlng
thing, and / confess | cannot compre-
hend it. That there is some cabal at
work to defeat every effort to supply q
remedy for the ineect pests that will
relieve the rapidly increasing fruit or
chards of their destructive enemies, is
evident. The STRAIGHTFORWARD state
ments in the HERALD leave no doubt OF
that now. A revelation was made day
or two ago which gave me ''clue," to
use police term, and as l represent in
a moderate way one whose fruit growing
interests are menaced, undertook to
find out what was meant.
A farmers club, or something of the
sort, met at Ontario last week. and
among its first "business" was the in
PRODUCTION of set of resolutions con-
demning the state board OF horticulture
and Prof. Koebele in very pronounced
terms, and on the other hand lauding
Professor Riley, whoeve. he may be,
and Professor Coquillette in very unct-
uious language. These resolutions were
deemed of Importance enough to tele-
graph to the Associated Press of the
state. At the same time it does not ap-
pear that anything else that club did
was of Importance enough to be men,
toned.
This, Mr.. Editor, was my clue, and az
| wanted to know more about it set to
work to find ''some liddle dings oudt.o
read in the HERALD that something
over year ago q number of things were
gotten up of the same tenor here in Los
Angelica on the predaceous insect cues
ton, and they too were telegraphed
over the state. II looked queer
and the more inquiries / made the
more familiar the whole thing lookec',
and | come to the conclusion that this
same cunning hand was at the bottom
of both these things. / have assurances
also that when these 'dispatches' wsre
presented to be transmitted over she
wires, coming from irregular and u,i-
known sources. the expense Of transmits.
| sion had to be guaranteed in ordr 10
! get them cent and so published II ~
probable that this iasS dispatch VA
itsenS under the came arrangement nd
4 by the same parties. Further nyeetiga-
ton showed that the introducer
of the resolutions did nut
know what the object was
and thought, while indifferent about it,
he was doing some one favor
Looking over the list OF those who
were in attendance at that meeting I
find the names of such stalwart tarmers
and fruit growers as the editors of ths
Rural Californian and number oil
others whose names have heard men.
toned as being commissioners, in,
spectors and sprayers, and conclude.
therefore that we know now more than
we once did.
From Mr.. Ellwood Cooper we learn
that Professor Koebele was sent to Cali
fornia and Australia over the head OF
Professor Riley. who tried to prevent it,
and HERALD editorial few days ago
informs US that Professor Coquillett was
removed from Southern California be-
cause he cast his lot with questionable
men, and having lost standing there
from, his days of usefulness had passed,
as fruit growers had lost confidence in
him. hope the HERALD will continue
its good work until this whole thing is
shown to the light. VNDEx.
Is tho Chasm Bridged?