AMERICA.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 273, 16 June 1888, Page 6

AMERICA.

Til U .i-!iiii';U>n 101 lespondenl in ,i Cili- ' foi ni.ui |. iper w l ik--Tin- ' 'onuniw'onei o! A^uuilhnv lu^ ! w lit ton .i iettoi to Connies- man ( '. N. i L'Vuwn im u;il\ to oac win ton l>y him on ihe Milij< el cif a niomoi ia^ pioonlcd !>) him lo( nirjic-sliom the \ inieultuiisls ot Ciliio 1 via U'kinji, lvi some ime^iig.J ion into the subject ot the Leeiya or while scale. The ('ommis-ionei L hnt. Ah Kelt mi's lett< l was le'eiied to the entomologist ot tliu (It [) n Line nt, w!io L'cpoi t,->t ,-> r.hat- Iho n.iiuuii liisioiy ot {,iio loniwhe-. u>i tlic senlt 1 iis-Lct. have hocn uiuier iine^li^ation an onu i linio, ami a lepnit. ot In- in\i^(ij4<a;(jn>i wih include.! in tin: annii.il i Lpoi t, o! Iho i Jep.u l«inuil ot 1886. 'Vhv entomologist h,r- s.i { i-.{icd lu'nwjli i>y ,vi examination oi t^pv's in i'aii-, ami uoire wii/li nanuali.si^ in Austuiha, Ki!,v 'akhLuul, South iVfm.i, iMauiilm^. and ! ! the i^lat.d of Houiboi:, that (JiO leovya, t.he | "-pucie-i (M)innioii to ('.ihtoniu, New Ze t ilaitil, Aif-daliji and Month Afiici, i^ di^tiuetiiom the lceiya ,s<iechaii. The u;^tdt ! ot this c< inclusion i^ to rendei still the hope ot ;i [j^.ietic.-il otiteome fioin <he investigations oi parasites and the natmal oneniie 1 ot the species in tlu.>e and othef cciuntiius, .uul more j)ai t-ieulaily in AnbCi.ilia, wlit'iciiUo impoit.iut enemies ot the .scale ha\c aheady been di.seoxered. Theentomoloii'ist hut, already made s(roni> practical pm^iess this ,^eai in the way oi experiments with fuiai^afion and washes towaid the desii lietion of this scale. The ( ntonioloyist thinlzs, however, that (he most ell'eetive metliod of holding the M'hite scale in check 111 1 to introduce the natuiul enemies thai/ ploy upon it in its native countiy. i In conclusion, the Comiiiissionei 1 says I that theie I-, nothing to prevent his eairyiuf;: out the wishes of the fiuit-giowers of California as oppressed in tlio memorial, except the clause in the law restricting 1 the travelling expenses for the division of entomology to the United Statct. Tho Commissioncv su^g-ehts that this liiniUiUon be cx ] mnged, or that a separate appropriation bo nmclo for this purpose.