The Bulletin. 



Volume 28. North Carolina State Board of Agriculture. Number 6. 



Entered at the Raleigrh Post-office as second-class mail matter. 



The Bulletin is published monthly by the State Board of Agriculture. 



RALEIGH, JUNE, 1907. 



THE SAN JOSE SCALE IN NORTH CAROLINA. 



By Franklin Sherman, Jr., Entomologist. 



In The Bulletin for May (1907) a fairly complete account is 

 given of the San Jose Scale and of the best laiown methods of fight- 

 ing it. It has been thought advisable in this bulletin to emphasize 

 the importance of this matter by giving an account of the conditions 

 so far as known in every county where the pest is known to be present, 

 and also to quote from letters recently received from the growers, 

 showing the present conditions on their premises and the results of 

 their efforts to subdue the pest. 



A careful reading of this bulletin will show that the San Jose 

 Scale is widespread in this State, and that if not combatted it is 

 capable of inflicting great loss upon our fruit interests. It will 

 also show that where the proper measures (as explained in The 

 Bulletin for May) are being used with care, thoroughness and 

 regularity, that profitable fruit crops can be, and are being, obtained, 

 not only by the well-trained specialists in fruit-growing, but by 

 ordinary farmers as well. 



DISTKIBUTION OF SAN JOSE SCALE IN NORTH CAROLINA ORCHARDS. 



A study of the map in Fig. 1 shows that this pest is widespread in 

 ■ this State. It is positively known to occur at sea-level in Brunswick 

 County in the extreme southeastern part of the State, and on the 

 high mountain ranges (over 4,000 feet) of Watauga County in the 

 northwestern part of the State, and it is destructive in both places. 

 As these points represent the two extremes of altitude and tempera- 

 ture to be found in our State, it is plainly seen that there is no 

 section of North Carolina where it will not thrive. It is also found 



