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taken up and destroyed. Full directions were given for spraying, and 

 the success of the operations will be watched. The source of this infest- 

 ation could not be definitely ascertained, but it was thought by the 

 owner that the first affected trees had come from a Missouri nurseryman 

 — not from New Jersey. 



Chestertown, Md., showed but few infested trees. They had been 

 treated by the owner with thick whale-oil soap of the consistency of 

 molasses, with every prospect of extermination of the scale. The infested 

 trees had been received from New Jersey in 1890. As a summary of the 

 above, Mr. Howard states that the scale had been exterminated (in 1894) 

 in Indiana and Virginia, and the probabilities were strong of a like result 

 before the close of the year, at the other localities named, except in 

 Florida and New Jersey. 



It has since come to the knowledge of the Division of Entomology, 

 that the scale has been found abundantly in three new localities in Mary- 

 land. It has also been discovered in a locality in Southern Georgia ; in 

 an orchard in Southern Ohio; in Newcastle Co., Md. ; in Jefferson Co., 

 Indiana; at City Point, Va.; and at Bristol, Pa. In some of these 

 localities the infestation was quite limited, and it is believed to have been 

 exterminated. (L. O. Howard: Further Notes on the San Jose Scale, 

 in Insect Life ^ vii, 1895, pp. 285, 286.) 



The San Jose Scale in New York. 



During the meeting of the American^ Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, at Brooklyn, N. Y., in August last — in a paper read by Dr. 

 Smith before the Association of Economic Entomologists on "The San 

 Jose Scale in New Jersey," it was incidentally stated that an orchard in 

 Columbia County, New York, was known to be badly infested with the 

 scale. The particular orchard was not named, but later, at my request, 

 the information was obtained from Dr. Smith, that Mr. L. L. Morrell of 

 Kinderhook, had not long ago purchased a number of young apple trees 

 (Ben Davis variety) from one of the New Jersey nurseries. Two years 

 later (in 1894), on examination of these trees by one of the owners of 

 the nursery (a relative of Mr. Morrell), they were found to be badly 

 infested, and advice was given that they should be at once taken up and 

 destroyed. A week or two later it was learned from Mr. Morrell that 

 this had been done, and it was thought that with the destruction of the 

 entire purchase, the scale had been exterminated. 



Thinking it important to know whether the measure had been entirely 

 successful, I visited Mr. Morrell early in November, and was met with 



