The San Francisco call., 1899-12-05
ONE DEAD FRUIT
SCALE ALARMED
THE INSPECTORS
German Officers Were
Very Strict.
CALIFORNIA PEARS REJECTED
QUEER STORY THAT TRAVELLED
IN LETTERS.
CALIFORNIA PEARS REJECTED

A queer story has come to this city
within the past few days in letters from
Germany addressed to exporters OF Cali
fornia dried fruits. The essence is that
one little. insignificant San Jose scale,
and that one. sole representative of q de-
generate class OF insect life, had been
considered with sufficient seriousness 10
bar large lot of California dried pears
out or Germany. All the letters agree.
Ihere was only one scale and that one
was dead. The natural supposition was
that dead scale would be harmless.
NO, said the stern and acute German
ofhcials, lit Will not do. Where there
is a dead scale there may also be a hive
scale. True II is that we have nor dis
covered a live one nor even another dead
one, but one is enough: indeed. too
many Consequently whole lot of
Irult, after crossing the width of one
continent and one ocean, was ordered out
II. schacht of ]. X. Armsby has re-
Selved letter telling the fact. MI
eral lots of California dried pears have
been held up in Germany during the
present season. He had heard Of only
dead scale. Indeed. Mr.. Schacht did not
see how a live scale could get into Ger
many on a dried pear, in view OF the
were shipped from California. instruc,
tons were recently sent broadcast
throughout Germany from Berlin, enioin-
ing great care in the admission OF drieI
The German officials said Mr..
Schscht, do not wish TO annoy us un-
necessarily necessarily but they wish to get perfect
same thing when we throw overheard
fruit trees from Japan that are infected.
California needs law that will provide
for Tor an LII, Inspection SO thorough that no
that is free should be entitled TO have a
certificate to that effect. That. being Off
cial; ought to be accepted as prima facis
Eastern men have certificates for their
apples, and those are accepted as proof
that they are all right; We tried to get
Gage vetoed It, The matter is serious
10 the whole State Germany promises
TO be of as much value TO California. uu-
purchaser, as the whole of the Eastern
market of the United States. our In
portations Of dried fruit to Germany this
geapds geaT VIII The gtea6v to nearly 10000
ton of European countries provides for
the consumption OF all the fruit they can
FSiss In its green fbeT dg They
abroad and largely from California
A. w. Porter Of Porter Brothers had
also received letter about that one dead
had upon California dried fruits then in
Germany. He said that 1t would be i'm
possible to identity the lot that was con-
demned. The goods were exported from
New York to Germany and to other Eu
ropean points In large quantities. es
pecially TO Hamburg and Havre. He had
not heard that any fault had been found
with California prunes. About one-tenth
of all the prunes exported from California
have gone to Germany this season
j. F. Ullrich, who has large dealings
with Germany in the California fruit line
said that he had heard of two lots of
pears that had been rejected. AS soon ss
an inspector discovered one scale, even If
that was a dead one, he would hold Ip
the entire lot in which the solitary scala
was found. The German inspecfors
claimed that II there was one dead scale.
there might be one live one The care
that the German authorities had exerted
during the past season was greater thsn
they ever had displayed before. Mr. iii
rich had already received two letters
There have been seizures in Berlin and In
Hamburg. None having been made in
Bremen. Inquiries have been sent to that
place on tho suspicion entertained bv the
German officials that the Inspection had
grown slack at that place Hereafter 81
Mr.. Ullrich said, the California produccrs
might count upon having a very sharp in
spection at all German points There had
been very few reflections OF California
dried fruits this year. But the reiection
Of lot for one dead scale was indica-
tive