Remedy for the Scale Bug.

Kerosene, diluted with water, is receiving many endorsements as a sure destroyer of the scale bug. Anson Van Leuven, of Old San Bernardino, writes: "Take twenty-five parts of water to one of kerosene, use either with syringe or swab; two applications will be sufficient to effectually kill the scale." Mr. Van Leuven is a pioneer orange grower at Old San Bernardino, and lives in a section of country where the scale is not so prevalent as it is nearer the coast.

W. D. Frazee, lately of San Bernardino, but now of Downey City, writes us to the same effect, endorsing the application of kerosene, diluted as stated above.

Scale Bug.—Last Spring we imported a number of orange trees from Los Angeles. When they arrived here they were badly covered with scale bug—an insect that infests the trees at Los Angeles severely. During the Summer the scale almost entirely disappeared from the orange trees, but during the last few weeks we were surprised to find them in abundance on the leaves of a couple of brown Smyrna fig trees, and on a couple of tritomas, or "Red-hot Pokers." Can some of the Los Angeles orange sharps inform us whether or not this is a common occurrence?—Fresno Expositor.

The scale bug infests everything almost. We have seen it on the orange, lemon, lime, peach, apple, apricot, almond, olive, and even blue gum. They are worse near the coast and scarcer in the interior valleys. They ought not to trouble trees to any extent in Fresno county. A little care there ought to keep trees comparatively free from these pests.