anaheim-gazette 1929-08-08

Herb Pennock's Sensational Return to Form HE'S BEEN IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE FOR FOURTEEN YEARS AND CONNIE MACK DUG HIM UP! HERB PENNOCK -his return to form feature of campaign HIS MOST OPTIMISTIC FOLLOWERS BELIEVED HIS PITCHING DAYS WERE AT AMEND. Last winter it was believed that Herb Pennock's pitching days were over. He contracted neuritis in his pitching arm, and nobody looked for a comeback. But Miller Huggins handled him carefully, and now he's again one of the Yankees' best bets in pitching. His great return to form stands out as one of the big events of the 1929 season. Country Girls' Contest Feature State Fair bathing revues for city girls." Skelton said, "and it is time that we give recognition to the country girls. Three are a couple hundred Lions clubs in CENSUS BIG UNDERSTATE. The year 1929 will be of interest to all of us because year in which the official event be taken. All of us will know how much Orange grown in ten years, especially grown vigorously and well. Some three thousand years David set out to number the Israel and Judah. It took me and twenty days to make and the returns showed 1,350 lant men that drew the swain. At the beginning of our existence, we took a census mately equal in magnitude taken by King David. The States marshals, to whom they assigned, were allowed thenceforth for the enumeration, and the total population of a little 4,000,000. The census of this was established as a decennial Constitution of the United States and is the only current state query which rests on such legal authority. Prior to 1759, the date of census of the United States been done in any country establishing a regular periodic population. Since that dateations of the world have been using methods and machinery possible a speedy counting plea and the accumulation a time of a vast amount of ding educational, social and conditions. The development statistical methods has farther in the United States any other country, and there the census is required in one enumerate 120,000,000 people that extensive information about six and a quarter mile 14,000 miles and quarries than 100,000 irrigation and projects. The population of continental States is now increasing to 1,400,000 persons per year approximately one person every six seconds. The total increase up of the annual excess of deaths, which amounts to 1,468 excess of immigration. Country Girls' Contest Feature State Fair A contest to determine who is California's most typical country girl will be conducted during the California Diamond Jubilee State fair at Sacramento by the Lions' clubs of the state. This announcement was made yesterday by John T. Skelton chairman of the Lions state fair committee. The contest, to be held on Lions' day, Wednesday, September 4, will be along the lines of an "Olympiad," with a total of 100 points—25 points each for appearance, milking a cow, riding a horse, and baking a cake. The girl who scores the highest number of points will be given $75; the second highest, $50, and the third, $25. The competition will be open to all girls in California with a minimum age limit of 16 years. "Even a girl who lives in a city," said Skelton, "will be eligible, for if she can ride, milk and bake, she comes within the qualifications of a country girl." Girls who desire to enter the contest are requested by Skelton to immediately get in touch with the Lions clubs in their respective localities. "We've had beauty contests and bathing revues for city girls." Skelton said, "and it is time that we give recognition to the country girls. Three are a couple hundred Lions clubs in California, and we expect most of them will sponsor one or more girls, so the contest should be a dandy. When all the girls line up in their gingham or calico dresses, in sunbonnets and floppy straw hats, it will be a picture of which California will be proud. And those who think there may not be girls in California who are capable of going through the events scheduled in the 'farm Olympiad' will get a big surprise." The judges in each branch of the Olympiad will be named from the list of regular state fair judges. As entries are received by the various Lions clubs they will be, in turn, forwarded by the secretaries of the clubs to Skelton at Sacramento. The 20.7 mile stretch of the Arrowhead Trail route extending from Mesquite, Nevada, to the Arizona-Utah state line, is in very poor condition at the present time. Twelve to fifteen miles per hour is average time over same. Preliminary operations are now under way for the improvement of this slow section but it will probably be another year before it will be materially improved. The population of continental States is now increasing to 1.400,000 persons per year, approximately one person every six seconds. The total increase up of the annual excess of deaths, which amounts to 1.28 excess of immigration gratification, which amounts to a 240,000 per year. By 1930 tion will be more than three great as it was in 1790 and what it was in 1890, or years ago. History records no other which the population has rapidly further. There has been due in no small degree definite knowledge we haveduction, our resources, ourtransitation, and ourporespired in current statisthe duty of the Bureau of to compile much of this and give publicity to it so individual and every ind commercial enterprise big have it! and may be in a make sure of it. 666 Is a Prescription Colds, Grippe, Flu, Billious Fever and M It is the most speedy rem NOTICE BOARD OF EQUALIZ Notice is hereby given Board of Trustees of the Chelsea will sit as a Board oition at the City Hall on August 12, 1929, at 10 o'clock noon of said day, and will session from day to day unturns of the Assessor have tilted. EDWARD B. MERE 7-25-31 START THE DAY RIGHT Men who succeed, in any line of work, appreciate the importance of the morning bath. Skin tingling with health, mind alert for problems of the day, nerves organized and ready for action—certainly the daily bath helps keep you feeling fit. HOT WATER ANYTIME -- INSTANTLY With a Welsbach "Hotzone" Heater. Ask us to appraise your old water heater for the unusually liberal allowance on a Welsbach. EASY TERMS SMALL PAYMENTS TUNE IN—On KFI each Wednesday morning at ten minutes before eleven for an important message. SOUTHERN COUNTIES GAS COMPANY CENSUS BIG UNDERTAKING The year 1930 will be of unusual interest to all of us because it is the year in which the official census will be taken. All of us will be glad to know how much Orange county has grown vigorously and well. Some three thousand years ago King David set out to number the people of Israel and Judah. It took nine months and twenty days to make the count, and the returns showed 1,350,000 valiant men that drew the sword." At the beginning of our own national existence, we took a census approximately equal in magnitude to that taken by King David. The United States marshals, to whom the task was assigned, were allowed thirteen months or the enumeration, and returned a total population of a little less than 400,000. The census of population was established as a decimal event by the Constitution of the United States, and is the only current statistical inquiry which rests on such fundamental legal authority. Prior to 1790, the date of the first census of the United States, little had been done in any country toward establishing a regular periodic census of populations. Since that date, the nations of the world have been developing methods and machinery that make possible a speedy counting of the people and the accumulation at the same time of a vast amount of data regarding educational, social and economic conditions. The development of modern statistical methods has probably gone farther in the United States than in any other country, and the director of the census is required in one month to enumerate 120,000,000 people and to obtain rather extensive information for about six and a quarter million individuals 14,000 males and quarries, and more than 100,000 irrigation and drainage projects. The population of continental United States is now increasing at the rate of 1,400,000 persons per year, or approximately one person every twenty-seconds. The total increase is made up of the annual excess of births over deaths, which amounts to 1,150,000, and the excess of immigration over移居. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS The board met in regular session. Present: Supervisors Willard Smith, chairman C. M. Chapman, John C. Mitchell, Wm. Schusacher, George Jeffrey and the clerk. Demands on the County of Orange were allowed at read. Spraying licenses were ordered issued to Al Wright, Henry Raiman, Donooksy & Onnie and E. Q. Stearns; cannigating licenses were ordered issued to Brattailer Williamina, Robert Hayes and Donooksy & Onlie on recommendation of the horizonal commissioner. Margaret E. Livingston was res-appointed county librarian for a term of four years. Cancellation of tax sale No. 1193 on property described as Laguna Beach City, Laguna Cliffs all of Bloch L., except that portion in Tract No. 773, was ordered made. A population was passed in County Improvement No. 23 requesting consent of the city council of the City of Santa Ana. An extension of time was granted the Western Construction company to complete their contract in County Improvement No. 17. The chairman was authorized to sign an agreement with the State Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry, State of California. The Firemen's Fund and Insurance company of San Francisco was awarded the contract to furnish insurance for public liability and property damage as advertised for, at a premium of $242.83. The property damage was increased from $1,600 to $3,000. Supervisor Chipman was appointed a committee to investigate insurance in the Court House. Personal property at the county yard was ordered advertised for sale for August 29, 1929, at 1:39 p.m. It was ordered to annex the Trabucoo school district to EJ Toro school district; and the property of the Trabucoo school district was ordered to be sold by the county superior district of schools at a private sale. The board adjourned to August 6, 1929, at 10:10 a.m. LOCAL BREVITIES Mrs. T. S. Grimshaw and her daughter, Miss M. Alice Grimshaw, leave on Saturday for a trip to Hawaii. They will be absent about a month. Mrs. Percy Olds entertained at a luncheon and musicale on Tuesday afternoon at her home on Lincoln avenue, in honor of Miss Alice Grimshaw and Mrs. T. S. Grimshaw, who leave on Saturday for a visit to Hawaii. Engineer E. P. Hapag has returned from a ten days' outing at Yosemite accompanied by his wife and two daughters, and is again at his vacation at the city hall. "Hap" is one of the most efficient men in the city government, and returns from his vacation ready to tackle the many jobs awaiting his attention. Mrs. Sophie Stock, Mrs. Nellie E. Terry and Miss Clem Backs left on Saturday on a motor trip to Vancouver and other points of interest in the north. They expect to return in a fortnight. Christian Science Church "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus had me made free from the law of sin and death. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." These words of Paul to the Romans are included among the Scriptural citations in the lesson-sermon on "Spirit Sunday," in all branches of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston, Mass. Another passage in the lesson-sermon selected from the Christian Science textbook "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," contains these statements of Mrs. Eddy: "In spirit there covered in Florida fruit picked with Orlando, Orange coated 1929. The pest was on April 10. The scouting following it to light a dozen intruders an area six by two Orange and Seminole 22 the pest had bgroves, four packing cull piles within five infestations were coast. As inspective infestations were for 31st the fly had B properties within these infestations, of Jacksonville, were contiguous territory; June infestation was Coast west of Tampa tended northward at time. The infestation to Lake Walke ducing area of Polk Park near the head Johns river and Lake Oakeechobee. Tied the zone include an area fully 135 miles wide at its first of July the included十七counten round of the total bearing ida were then included fested and protective date these zones are the vicinity of C increased. Prior to the disco April 7, between two fourths of the fruits of Florida had alrhe state through town distribution and trying the risk widely in the discovery of the fly ate shipments and olarly heavy fruit quarantined area due April or up until antine became effected wards of 4,000 carriages. The population of continental United States is now increasing at the rate of 1,400,000 persons per year, or approximately one person every twenty-seconds. The total increase is made up of the annual excess of births over deaths, which amounts to 1,150,000, and the excess of immigration over migration, which amounts to an additional 240,000 per year. By 1930 the population will be more than thirty times as great as it was in 1790 and nearly twice what it was in 1890, or only forty years ago. History records no other instance in which the population has increased so rapidly. Further, there has been no other nation in which the increase in population has been accompanied by such improvement in the comfort and well-being of the people. As a statistician, I believe that this advancement has been due in no small degree to the definite knowledge we have of our production, our resources, our facilities for transportation, and our populations. TIMETABLE In effect June 9, 1929 A. T. & S. F. Ry. Coast Lines Trains to Los Angeles No. 79 6:35 A.M. No. 71 11:25 A.M. No. 53 3:41 P.M. No. 72 4:55 P.M. No. 75 8:52 P.M. Trains from Los Angeles No. 78 2:00 A.M. No. 72 10:15 A.M. No. 74 3:23 P.M. No. 76 8:11 P.M. No. 52 San Bernardino Train, 5:20 P.M. (Arrive Fullerton 6:00 P.M.) Through sleepers to Kansas City, Minneapolis, Chicago, Grand Canyon. Through sleepers to Denver, St. Louis, Chicagro and Grand Canyon connections. Train 74 fast no-stop train, stops to let of Eastern passengers. Through sleepers to Chicago from San Diego for "The Chief," Phoenix, Houston, Galveston and New Orleans connections. FRUIT FLY (Continued from Page One) the case of its most favored fruits, few escape its sting. Under less favorable conditions such as prevail along the shores of the Mediterranean, its destructiveness is confined to the warmer summer months. Here crops maturing during the winter and spring escape the fly, although summer fruits such as peaches frequently are a complete failure from its attack. The pest is unable to survive in countries having winter snowfall. This fruit fly is now established on every continent, Florida being its first foothold in North America. It is known in the commercial citrus areas of the Mediterranean, Australia and South Africa. It occurs in Brazil and Argentina. The Bermuda Islands is its nearest home to the United States, having been there since about 1865. It is the Hawaiian Islands, however, that California has been wont to recognize as its most likely source of introduction, since its discovery there in 1910. The Mediterranean fruit fly has never been reported from China, India or Japan. 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Prior to the discord April 7, between two fourths of the fruiting season of Florida had already state through it distribution and trying the risk of ectropathy in discovery of the flyate shipments and largely heavy fruit quarantined area due to April or up until antine became effective wards of 4,000 carcasses grapefruit were shipped last half of A fruit was moved federal reports of Florida fruit in some states. In one were found in a fruit present time, there is pest is established ida. The establishment Florida led to promotion. The Florida placed the known quarantine as all infested properties out delay and all fruits from the parts of the state where state quarantine did not exist to other states, with ships interstate area until May 1st regulates became. The federal quarantine Florida into three arly infested protected infested zone compiled within one month on which infestation The protective zone included within nine milliboundary of any outside zone include quarantined state and protected zones. The injury cause ricanan fruit fly is caused by hosts attacked, and roots are not any effective camp is predicated on them and destruction of turing host fruits. Infested property was Plant Board immede he fruit present, but pit which was heavily with dirt. He sprayed with an adult flies. This cull destruction followed ing has constituted of the clean-up care. The first two weeks upwards of 15,000 been destroyed and Plant Board had lost to 563,000 boxes. Acres of citrus and reported then cleaned include the house cities and towns on The fruit was lain trenches or pits, milk or oil and ultimated. 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Perhaps nowhere Mediterranean fruiting than in Honolulu through the uniform that bred freely both in many as fifteen tions being estimated Furthermore, there succession of ripen cultivated and will fly an environmentation. Fernuda having a climate f activity, although ment is much slow Furthermore, the covered in Florida as larvae in grape-fruit picked with the city limits of Orlando, Orange county, on March 30, 1923. The pest was positively identified on April 10. The first week of field scouting following its discovery brought to light a dozen infested properties in an area six by twelve miles within Orange and Seminole counties. By April 22 the pest had been found in fifty groves, four packing houses, and five cull piles within five counties. Then infestations were found on the east coast. As inspection progressed new infestations were found until by May 31st the fly had been located in 697 properties within eleven counties. All these infestations, with the exception of Jacksonville, were in more or less contiguous territory. The first part of June infestation was found on the Gulf Coast west of Tampa and had then extended northward almost to St. Augustine. The infestation also crept southward to Lake Wales in the great producing area of Polk county and to Deer Park near the head waters of the St. Johns river and sixty miles north of Lake Okeechobee. This greatly extended the zone of infestation to now include an area fully 130 miles long by 135 miles wide at its widest place. The first of July the infested counties included sixteen counties, or 69 per cent of the total bearing trees in all Florida. On May 31st the Florida Plant Board reported that their department of statistics had estimated that 50 per cent of the total bearing citrus trees of Florida were then included within the infested and protective zones. Since that date these zones have been greatly the vicinity of Orlando, Florida, on increased. Prior to the discovery of this pest in April 7, between two-thirds and three-fourths of the fruit of that district and of Florida had already moved out of the state through the normal channels of distribution and diversion, thus carrying the risk of establishment of this pest widely in the United States. The discovery of the fly tended to accelerate shipments and there was a particularly heavy fruit movement from the quarantined area during the latter half of April or up until the federal quarantine became effective May 1st. Upwards of 4,000 carloads of oranges and shrubs in Bermuda which bear fruit subject to its attack is small. In Florida this past year, the fruit fly was active the first of April and from the fact that heavily infested grapefruit was then to be found as well as adult files on the wing there must have been activity very much earlier in the season, prehops throughout the winter. As a grapefruit pest under Florida conditions the fly was about as bad as it could be. Of the Mediterranean countries, including Spain, where the fruit fly was originally discovered and is generally destructive, Professor Quayle writes in a government bulletin after a study of the situation: "Aside from a few localities where considerable injury is done to the peach, the fruit fly is not a very destructive pest in the Mediterranean countries, and fruit continues to be grown successfully in spite of its presence. Oranges were not found infested with fruit fly larvae during April and May. By the end of May oranges are almost entirely off the market in Sicily. On the first of August such ripe oranges as were still on the trees or on the ground were heavily infested." According to the writer's own observations in Spain during the summer of 1910, when he was invited by the Spanish government to study their citrus pest condition, the fruit fly was then considered less of an important pest of citrus than the red scale. However, as a pest of peaches, figs and other late summer and early autumn deciduous fruits, it was reported ad often highly destructive. From the standpoint of California it is particularly interesting to compare that of Valencia, Spain. From November the mean temperature of Pomona with ber to April the mean temperatures are practically identical. From May to October the Spanish climate averages from 1 to 3 degrees warmer than Pomona. For comparative purposes, the climate of Valencia more closely parallels that of Pomona than Pomona parallels that of Santa Ana. The humidity of Valencia averages low like that of Pomona. Furthermore, the general topography of southern Spain, the type of fruit crop and the type of flora in general is very comparable to that of Southern California. Prior to the discovery of this pest in April 7, between two-thirds and three-fourths of the fruit of that district and Florida had already moved out of the state through the normal channels of distribution and diversion, thus carrying the risk of establishment of this pest widely in the United States. The discovery of the fly tended to accelerate shipments and there was a particularly heavy fruit movement from the quarantined area during the latter half of April or up until the federal quarantine became effective May 1st. Upwards of 4,000 carloads of oranges and grapefruit were shipped out of Florida the last half of April. That infested fruit was moved has been shown by federal reports of finding this pest in Florida fruit in some half dozen different states. In one state adult files were found in a fruit store. Up to the present time, there is no evidence that the pest is established outside of Florida. The establishment of the fruit fly in Florida led to prompt state and federal action. The Florida State Plant Board placed the known infested area under quarantine as of April 1st. Fruit on infested properties was destroyed without delay and all movement of citrus fruits from the infested area to other parts of the state was prohibited. Under state quarantine, however, authority did not exist to stop movement to other states, with the result of heavy shipments interstate out of the infested area until May 1st, when the federal regulations became effective. The federal quarantine No. 68 divided Florida into three areas or zones, namely infested, protective and outside. The infested zone comprises the area included within one mile of any property on which infestation has been found. The protective zone is the area included within nine miles of the outside boundary of any infested zone. The outside zone includes all portions of a quarantined state outside of infested and protected zones. The injury caused by the Mediterranean fruit fly is confused to the fruits of hosts attacked. The foliage, stems and roots are not injured. Therefore, any effective campaign of eradication is predicated on the immediate removal and destruction of all matured or maturing host fruits. As soon as the first infested property was found, the State Plant Board immediately deroyed all he fruit present, burying it in a deep pit which was afterwards covered heavily with dirt. Later the trees were sprayed with an arsenical to kill the adult files. This combination of fruit destruction followed by arsenical spraying has constituted the fundamentals of the clean-up campaign. The first two weeks of the clean-up upwards of 15,000 boxes of fruits had been destroyed and by June 1st the Plant Board had increased the figure to 563,000 boxes. Ninety-six thousand acres of citrus and none-citrus were reported then cleaned, and this did not include the house lots in the many cities and towns of the infested area. The fruit was largely dumped into trenches or pits, mixed with quick lime or oil and ultimately covered deep with that of Valencia, Spain. From November the mean temperature of Pomona with ber to April the mean (temperatures are practically identical. From May to October the Spanish climate averages from 1 to 3 degrees warmer than Pomona. For comparative purposes, the climate of Valencia more closely parallels that of Pomona than Pomona parallels that of Santa Ana. The humidity of Valencia averages low like that of Pomona. Furthermore, the general topography of southern Spain, the type of fruit crop and the type of flora in general is very comparable to that of Southern California. Since the fruit fly has been reported as inactive in the Mediterranean countries during the winter, and not to become active before June, this allows fruits which mature November to June to escape fruit fly injury. There have been reports of the carlies ripening oranges (October) being occasionally stung by the fly. Oranges in Spain consist of varieties which are off the trees before July. Therein we have a full explanation why the Spanish fruit is not troubled by the fly pest. There are no commercial oranges on the trees during the summer weather of greatest fly activity. The climate of California approximates very closely that of Southern Spain, therefore it is to be expected that fruit fly development here would in general be very comparable. The crop situation in California, however, differs from that of Spain. While our navel and grapefruit crops parallel quite closely the orange crop of Spain, maturing and being marketed November to June, our valencia season falls during the months of greatest fruit fly activity, June to October. Furthermore the peach, prune and most of the other deciduous fruit crops mature during the warm season of the year, and are of tremendous commercial importance. This conditions shows that were the fruit fly once to become established here it would have great acreages of both fully matured citrus and deciduous exposed to its ravages during the season of its greatest activity, July to October. In South Africa and Australia under climatic conditions somewhat comparable to our own, citrus and other fruits are produced successfully in spite of the presence of the fruit fly. In these countries extensive use is made of a poison bait such as has been used in the recent campaign in Florida to kill the adult fly. The reason of spray for the adult is based on the fact that the female fly feeds for four to ten days after emergence before she is capable of ovipositing. Sweetened baits attract these files and the poison proves mortal. In spite of the success reported in control in some countries, California should not for a moment think of another pest must be avoided, but this than eradication should the pest ever become established in our state. The added burden of annual treatment for another pest must be avoided, but this drops into insignificance to the value of keeping the pest out. The tremendous potential damage of this fly to our valencia and deciduous crop, its influence on our great canning industry, adult files. This combination of fruit destruction followed by arsenical spraying has constituted the fundamentals of the clean-up campaign. The first two weeks of the clean-up upwards of 15,000 boxes of fruits had been destroyed and by June 1st the Plant Board had increased the figure to 563,000 boxes. Ninety-six thousand acres of citrus and none-citrus were reported then cleaned, and this did not include the house lots in the many cities and towns of the infested area. The fruit was largely dumped into trenches or pits, mixed with quick lime or oil and ultimately covered deep with dirt. Some of these pits were very large, containing many thousand boxes of fruit. Almost 4,000 men were employed in this clean-up work when the activity was at its height. At first only citrus fruits were destroyed, but later all host fruits and vegetables were included. Naturally, the question uppermost in a Californian's mind is what damage would the fruit fly do if established here. In reaching for an answer to his question based on such facts as are available, it is perhaps safest to draw upon the experience in other fruit fly countries where climate and flora most closely parallel that of our own state. For the most part Californiaans have been accustomed to view the fruit fly through the eye of Hawaiian conditions either as the result of personal observation or through publications by writers based on the activities of the pest there. Those with experience also in other fruit fly areas have seldom spoken. Perhaps nowhere in the world is the Mediterranean fruit fly more damaging than in Honolulu. This is explained through the climate being so mild and uniform that it permits the fly to breed freely both summer and winter, as many as fifteen or sixteen generations being estimated for a single year. Furthermore, there is a continuous succession of ripening host fruits both cultivated and wild, which provide the fly an environment for rapid multiplication. Formula is another country having a climate favorable to fruit fly activity, although the winter development is much slower than at Honolulu. Furthermore, the number of trees and after emergence before she is capable of ovipositing. Sweetened baits attract these files and the poison proves mortal. In spite of the success reported in control in some countries, California should not for a moment think of the another pest must be avoided, but this than eradication should the pest ever become established in our state. The added burden of annual treatment for another pest must be avoided, but this drops into insignificance to the value of keeping the pest out. The tremendous potential damage of this fly to our valencia and deciduous crop, its influence on our great canning industry, the restrictive or embargo quarantines such as are now so ruinous to Florida, and the influence of infested fruit on the consuming public-all point to a policy of watchful waiting coupled with eradication should occasion ever arise. The possibility of the fly already having entered California in infested fruit demands an intensive survey of the maturing fruit crops throughout the entire state. Furthermore, the promise of greatest success in any eradication campaign is pericled on discovery of the pest when first established, and prompt action in destruction. The fact that California will be perpetually subjected to fruit fly invasion from nearby Hawaii, whether or not eradication occurs in Florida, behooves the state to organize and maintain a permanent fruit fly department. We possess certain natural advantages in an eradication campaign such as scarcity of wild hosts, arid climate, natural barriers and a large actice inspection service. The urgent demand for a continuous and permanent survey led recently to the director of agriculture establishing such a department. When fully organized, this department will conduct state-wide surveys in cooperation with the county horticultural commissioners and others in a position to render proper assistance. Furthermore, this department is expected to become well versed in the most approved methods for fruit fly eradication, tighten up on our inspection service, erect and hold in constate readingess a complete and detailed plan in which men, materials and machinery are properly co-ordinated to rise for immediate action should this pest ever show up in our state.