The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-06-12

very anxious to ship orange trees into
one of our districts which practically
has no pests. These orange trees
were infested with the Florida red
spider (Tetrauychus mytilaspidis.)
The man insisted that he had a right
to ship his trees anywhere that he
could find market for them. A num-
Der Of the wideawake growers in said
district said that if necessary they
would send a representative to where
the trees were and purchase them
and burn them there. 1t was not
necessary, and the trees were not ship
ped into their district.
Many of the worst insect pests are
SO minute that they are very apt to
be overlooked by the ordinary inspect
or, hence, we have an ordinance
quarantining very strictly against
nursery stock from districts known to
be infested with insect pests not pre-
valent in Our county.
TO illustrate again, we have over
sixteen thousand acres Of grape vine
yards in our county, and as yet we
have no phylioxera. If we admit grape
vines from locality known to be
infested with that pest, it is patent
to any one who is acquainted with
the past history of this state that it
would only be a question of time,
and very short time perhaps, when
that worst of all grapevine pests
would find its way into our extensive
vineyards and greater than any nur-
sery or combination of them could
remunerate. Past experience has
shown us Glow great matter
little fire kindleth.''
We quarantine very strictly against
any possibility of introducing the
peach yellows." Why should we be
less careful about acquiring other
known injurious pests?
And in the matter of local quaran-
tine inside our state, would not purple
scale or Phylloxera or long scale or
any other scale be just as damaging
and just as costly if introduced from
an adjoining county Or an adjoining
district as it would be if imported
from another state Or county?
We are spending many thousands
Of dollars, annually, now in our coun-
ty, fighting fruit pests, and will not
sit down peacefully and allow our
county to be flooded with the whole
list of pests simply because some ava
r1c1ous men have stock that they wish
to dispose Of for money, whether said
stock be clean or infested.
You will notice that the writer of
the above article mentions the white
fly as being one of the injurious in
sects which had not yet been intro
duced into California. But in another
column OF the same paper we find
the following, under the head, THE
Dreaded White Fly Reported"
In the Sacramento Bee of May II,
we find this dispatch from Oroville,
from the Bees special correspondent
at Maysville, Yuba county, which is
north of Sacramento:
At the instance of Horticultural
Commissioner G. w. Harvey, a Dep
uty State Horticultural Commissioner.
+. M. Ehrhorn, was in Marysville to-
day to investigate the white fly, a
pest the coming of which is mystify-
ing the local authorities.
"The next time you find yourself
walking through your garden" said
Commissioner Harvey to the Bee cor
respondent, "take a careful look at
the leaves Of your orange trees. I'll
you find numerous, tiny, pure white
flies on the under side of the leaves.
then you will know that your trees
are infested with the new pest"
The eggs are laid mostly on the
underslde OF the leaf, and are scarcely
visible to the naked eye. When they
hatch, the young insect appears as
very small and almost microscopical
scale attached to the leaf. It after