Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1904 . and carry out means of extermination,should secure information regarding the distribution of mosquitoes in thiscountry, and disseminate information throughout the infested areas. It hasleen proved that mosquitoes can be exterminated from an infested localityby a thorough drainage of the meadows and swamps, and by careful atten-tion to standing water in pools, ditches, ponds, tanks, cisterns, wells, cess-pools, so as to have them drained or covered. On account of the great importance of the subject, I would suggest thatour Socie
Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1904 . and carry out means of extermination,should secure information regarding the distribution of mosquitoes in thiscountry, and disseminate information throughout the infested areas. It hasleen proved that mosquitoes can be exterminated from an infested localityby a thorough drainage of the meadows and swamps, and by careful atten-tion to standing water in pools, ditches, ponds, tanks, cisterns, wells, cess-pools, so as to have them drained or covered. On account of the great importance of the subject, I would suggest thatour Society take measures to begin an active anti-mosquito campaign.\Luch could be done during the coming year to call the attention of the publicto the fact that mosquitoes can be exterminated, and I am sure that our pub-IC men throughout the country would come to our aid as soon as practicablepropositions were laid before them. As Dr. Howard says : When we con-Bider the enormous sums of money spent for luxuries, how much more shouldbe spent for bare comfort and peace V. Fig. 7. Malarial Mosquito (Anopheles), male on left, female on right hand of figure. The last illustration of Entomological work of great importance is the•fluccessful introduction of the Caprifig insect (Blastophaga grossorum) fromSouthern Europe for the fertilization of the Smyrna figs in California. For?seme years attempts had been made to produce Smyrna figs in California, butwithout success. The failure was due to the fact that the flowers of thesefigs were all female, and there was no natural mode of pollination. It is wellknown that the fine flavor of the figs imported from Smyrna is due to the factithat the fig flowers there are fertilized by pollen from the Wild branches of the Wild Caprifig bearing figs are tied to branches of the THE REPORT OF THE No, 19 Smyrna fig tree an insect emerges from galls within the former and pollinatesthe female flowers of the latter. After much labor the Blastoph
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