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see local and frequent practices in them and which might be well 

 imitated. 



Delaware County. 



Inspector, M. E. Shay. 



District : Delaware and Philadelphia counties. 



Demonstration orchard at Lima, in charge of M. E. Shay. 



1 find abundance of San Josd Scale, not only on fruit trees, but 

 ornamental shrubbery is being killed entirely by it. I find it to be 

 on the increase, as very few j)laces inspected are found free from 

 Scale. In orchards that have been sprayed, I find very good results, 

 especially where they have used boiled Lime-sulphur and have done 

 the work thoroughly. Orchards that have not been sprayed show 

 the results of San Jos^ Scale very plainly. 



I find ninety per cent, of the trees infested. The people are very 

 much interested in it at the present tmie, as I am receiving numerous 

 letters to call on them personally and examine trees and explain 

 how the material should be made properly. Tree owners are always 

 glad to meet me, and wish me to call after they have sprayed and 

 see that it has been properly done. Two years ago I could scarcely 

 get a person to listen, simply because they thought we had some- 

 thing to sell. They could not understand how' the State could be 

 dioing so much to help the farmer, for nothing. 



If we suspend our work at the Mid of this year it will be a great 

 loss to people who do not quite understand the Scale, as they do 

 not know whether the}- have Scale or not. There are quite a lot of 

 young fruit trees being planted by some because they know that 

 the Scale can be controlled. 



I am received with welcome w^herever I go, and am always asked 

 to call again when in the neighborhood. I find almost all kinds 

 of materia] used for spraying, such as Lime-sulfur, Kill-0-Scale, 

 Scalecide, Kerosene Emulsion, Whale Oil and Crude Oil. I find best 

 results from Lime-sulfur, also good results from Scalecide and Kero- 

 sene Emulsion when properly made and applied; but most of the 

 commercial sprayers do not do good work, as they do not use the 

 proper strength. This makes it look bad for spraying in general, but 

 I tell the people to take a look at our demonstration orchards and 

 they will see results obtained by us. 



The outlook for fruit growing in this section is better. What we 

 must do is to keep after them and not let up, for if we do, and they 

 do not hear or see any of the Inspectors, they will commence to think 

 they have killed all the San Jos(? Scale and that there was no further 

 use for inspection. In the same way, our demonstration orchards 

 would amount to nothing should we give up now, after just getting 

 them in a starting condition to grow and with very little trouble 

 or expense produce fruits such as they had never grown before. 



Fulton County. 



Inspector, H. B. Weiss. 



District: Fulton county. 



While in Fulton county, during which time I inspected nearly all 

 of Todd and Ayr townships, I found the San Jos6 Scale conditions as 

 follows: 



In the borough of McConnellsburg, fully 95 per cent, of all the 

 fruit trees were infested with San Jos^ scale. In Todd township, 

 which is north of McConnellsburg, only about 1 per cent, of the trees 



