170 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



Northampton County. 



Demonstration orchard at Eedington in charge of B. S. Moore. 

 See report of Inspector Moore under Schuylkill county. 



Northumberland County. 



Inspector, A. W. Stephens. 



District : Columbia, Montour, and Northumberland counties. 

 Demonstration orchard at Sunbury in charge of A. W. Stephens. 

 See report by Inspector Stephens under Montour county. 



Perry County. 



Inspector, T, C, Foster. 



District: Perry, Snyder and Union counties. 



Demonstration orchard at Loysville,in charge of Inspector Foster. 



The demonstration orchard feature of the work undertaken by 

 the Department this year has been attended by varied degrees of 

 success and satisfaction, owing largely to the great difference exist- 

 ing between the conditions of the orchards selected, and the interest 

 manifested by their owners or managers in carrying out the program 

 of operations prepared by your Inspectors. 



In a general review of the question of attendance in my own 

 district, the opinion is well based that the greatest interest through- 

 out was exhibited along the lines of pruning and improving methods 

 of orchard treatment. 



In commenting upon the condition of the San Jos6 Scale in Union 

 and Snyder counties, where the inspection work has been completed, 

 the following observations will record the status of destructiveness 

 already inflicted by this insect, viz: In Union, where the presence 

 of the Scale, in the boroughs especially, has reached an alarming 

 stage, some effort has been made to save the trees, while in the rural 

 districts, where also a large percentage of orchards are infested, a 

 too feeble effort has been made to control the Scale, due principally 

 to the fact that in the majority of instances the scale had not as 

 yet dealt its last deadly blow. 



A more determined stand has been taken in Snyder county, how- 

 ever, where we find during the jjast season, besides the several in- 

 dividual equipments in use, three parties had specially fitted them- 

 selves for the public spraying of orchards, and have accomplished 

 much good as a result. It might be well to note that the San Jos^ 

 Scale has been gaining ground in a great many instances throughout 

 the district, chiefly due to the fact that the time when the public 

 spraying demonstrations were held, the people generally entertained 

 little fear of the pest, believing it impossible for an insect so small 

 as to require a microscope to fully identify it, to work so much 

 injury. 



To give an idea of the extent of the San Jos^ Scale in some sec- 

 tions of Perry county, it might be well to refer toi one instance 

 covering a day's travel, where out of twelve orchards inspected, 

 there were ten premises found infested with the San Jos^ Scale, and 

 that, too, very badly in two or three eases. In this and some other 

 sections of the county, the Scale has increased so fast within the past 

 two years, that the owners of the property are becoming alarmed. 



The interest in our work throughout the district is becoming mani- 



