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plans. I would not recommend the abandoning of our work in old 

 orcliards. This part of the work should be continued in order to 

 teach the owners how to get better results from old orchards while 

 the new ones are coming on. [This is an important point, well 

 taken. — H. A. S.] There should be State control of the fruit tree 

 salesman. [We fully endorse the idea that the State should control 

 the fruit tree salesman, to prevent fraudulent practice by him. This 

 should catch the rascals and aid reliable nurserymen. — H. A. S.] 

 The duplicating of orders and fraud practiced by many of them is a 

 decided injury to the business. 



In the inspection w^ork very little borough inspection has been 

 done. The rural inspection has been pushed and borough inspection 

 left for bad weather. All villages covered in rural inspection have 

 been inspected. The principle boroughs and towns can be reached 

 from here by railroad and can be worked in the winter time and 

 unseasonable weather. In the borough inspections I have made a 

 practice of destroying trees when found infested with San Jos^ 

 Scale. This has always been done with the hearty co-operation of 

 the owner. 



The following townships have been completed: White, Rayne, 

 Washington, Cherry Hill, Brush Valley, Centre and Armstrong. 

 The following townships have been partly inspected: South Ma- 

 honing is all inspected but small strip on northern portion, southern 

 half East Mahoning, western portion of Grant and Green, northern 

 half of Black Lick and Burrell, and eastern half of Young. 



Juniata County. 

 Inspector, James Bergy. 



District: Huntingdon, Juniata and Mifflin counties. 

 See report of Mr. Bergy, under Huntingdon county. 



Lackawanna County. 



Inspector, A. O. Finn. 



District: Lackawanna and Susquehanna counties. 



Demonstration orchard at Dalton,Pa., in charge of Inspector Finn. 



During the two years of my inspection work, 1 have covered 

 nearly one-half of the farming districts of Lackawanna and Susque- 

 hanna counties. Last year, with only two exceptions, I found t^an 

 Jos6 Scale in every township, those exceptions being Fell and West 

 Abington. 



In the townships where found it occurred on an average in from 

 three to ten places to a towaiship, usually on young trees from a 

 nursery, one to three years old. In the town of Dalton I found it on 

 half of the premises inspected, and some were very bad infestations. 

 In Scranton I found it on about twenty per cent, of the places in- 

 spected. 



This year in Susquehanna county I trTul it about the same in the 

 farming districts as I found it in Lackawanna county last year. In 

 two of the townships I found no San Jos^ Scale. 



In the territory worked, with very few exceptions, no spraying 

 has been done, except around Dalton where the demonstration or- 

 chard is established, and where I found the worst infestation. Ma- 

 terial used has been the boiled Lime and Sulfur with good results 

 where thoroughly applied. 



11—7—1908. 



