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present infestation lies in the central portion of the state, bounded 

 -on the west by the sandhill tract and on the south by the Platte river. 

 'Those towns in which the atack of the scale became extraordinarily 

 :severe, threatening the life of, and actually killing many of the shade 

 trees, are Long Pine, Albion, Broken Bow, Kearney, Ainsley and 

 Neligh. In most of the above named localities the entire growth of 

 the previous year was killed and the vitality of all the infested trees 

 greatly reduced. During the first week in April, 1905, when the 



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The Cottony Maple Scale. 



