The San Francisco call., 1904-03-10
MAKING FINAL PREPARATIONS
TO MOVE ONWARD TO ST. LOUIS
Craw Puts Up Most Unique Of All State Exhibits
Headquarters ofCommission Are About to Close
San Francisco Fund Is Still Lacking $4,000

Sdn FRANCISCO fun0
touches yesterday on what is pro-
nounced by Commissioner ]. A. Filchcr
to be the most unique of all the exhibits
that California will send to st. Louis.
with shelves: books with snowy bind
ings, the pages of which are ostenta-
tiously thrown open to show illustra-
tions Of California fruits in colors; and
every family of beneficial insects that
California has employed to get rid of
its cottony cushion scales, it's black
scales. the San Jose scale and all the
other nOxious organisms that have, at
different times, menaced horticulture
generally and in particular the proper
growth in this State of oranges.
When limbs and twigs, leaves and
fruit have been covered with one dis
fgurement or another the State of Cali
fornia has, through the agency OF its
horticultural officers. sought, and hav-
ing secured, has propagated vast NUM-
bers of insect killers of insects. Some
have been introduced from Australia
and some from Europe. They are, one
and all, epicures of the first water.
Each beneficial sort of insect will eat
only one sort of scale. Hence continual
research and minute observation have
been necessary to secure for the several
/ varieties of scales that have been
brought to California the proper scale
enemies
Most of the beneficial insects are ex-
tremely minute. Some of them, in fact,
are hardly disdernible, except under a
microscopic lens. Notwithstanding this
every beneficial insect has been en-
dowed with a name a foot long and
has had an appetite for scales that has
proved that it could be relied upon to
pay strict attention to business.
SEEN THROUGH LENSES.
The exhibition case to go to st. Louis.
illustrative of the successful efforts of
California to fight scales and other in
sect troubles, is fitted up with micro
scope lenses, one lens for each cluster
VI OClCAlCldl lD6CNNo. OAiC may ACOAA
through the lens and rightly distinguish
the minute Insects to which a great
State has, and not vainly, pinned its
faith. In the exhibition case are also
thin cylinders of glass, the tubes in
which colonies of beneficial insects are
transported from the headquarters of
the Horticultural Commissioner at the
foot of Market street to infested orch
ards
From all parts of the world scientists,
and especially horticulturists, will gaze
with fascination on this small collec-
ton of beneficial insects. From small
number their associates in the scale
/ destroying business have increased to
/ countless millions. The money that
! they have directly saved in rescuing
orchards and the greater service they
have performed in insuring the con-
/ tinuance of fruit industries that must
/ have totally failed without their hard
! work can be represented only in mil
/ lions of dollars. The insect case was
ready to start overland last night
BY the end Of another week prob
ably all the California exhibits, with
/ the exception of the green fruits to be
sent next summer, will be on the way
| to st. Louis. Altogether, so says Sec
retary Willis of the California ST. Louis
! Commission, the California exhibit will
amount to about forty full carloads.
/ Something like half a score of cars
/ have already been dispatched from
/ California points. The exhibits have
been assembled at San Francisco, Los
/ Angeles, Stockton, Sacramento and San
Jose as central shipping points.
| While there are some tardy parties
who are still holding back under one
pretext or another, practically all the
exhibits are at hand. So near are the
Commissioners to the end of their work
at this end of the line that the head
quarters of the commission in the Russ
House will be closed next Sunday. Sec
retary Willis will start for st. Louis
on Sunday. Commissioner Filcher will
be detained a few days, possibly to
get the later arriving exhibits under
way and to see that all the business of
the commission in this State is closed
up as far as possible.
The California State building at ST.
Louis is ready to receive some of its
intended contents. The great buildings
Of the exposition in which the Cali
fornia exhibits are to be placed are
completed and ready for the installa-
ton of what is to be put on view for
the admiration of spectators.
FUND is STILL SHORT.
Secretary L. NJ King of the San
Francisco committee to prepare the fine
show that San Francisco will make
ON it's own account at st. Louis says
that there is need for prompt responses
to communications that have been sent
out to merchants, property owners and
capitalists generally in this city ask
ing for support that San Francisco
may make a showing at st. Louis that
may be a credit and first class adver-
tisement for San Francisco.
The committee has received in cash
from citizens something more than
$4,000. The municipality gives $4,000.
AS s500Oo is the minimum sum for do
/ ing the work at St. Louis WELL includ-
ing the cost of erecting the building. of
collecting and installing the exhihits