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planted. I wrote you and was directed how to spray with the Lime-sulphur 

 Wash. I did this, first in late fall, * * * repeated early in spring. The 

 trees made a .vigorous growth and are in a flourishing condition. — John M. 

 Houck, Marion, N. C, April 5, 1907. 



Mecklenburg. — Two cases are on record for this county, both on 

 R. F. D. No. 5 out from Charlotte. 



I have not much faith In any kind of spraying for the San ,Ios6 Scale. I 

 believe the best remedy is to cut down, pile up and Imrn — that is what I do 

 when I notice a tree failing. — Charles Gibson, R. F. D. No. 5, Charlotte, N. C, 

 March 30, 1901. 



Mitchell. — One case, a large apple orchard, is on record at Spruce 

 Pine. It is being held in control. 



Montgomery. — jSTine cases are on record at Candor, it being prac- 

 tically certain that all home orchards in that immediate vicinity are 

 more or less infested. Of the nine cases known, five are on lots owned 

 or tenanted by negroes, and two others are on property of whites so 

 circumstanced that treatment is not practicable. The remaining two 

 cases are in commercial orchards, one of 1,600 peach trees and the 

 other of the Candor Fruit Company, ranking with the largest of the 

 State, with about 33,000 peach. Both the commercial orchards are 

 well kept, and are sprayed each winter with "Scalecide." In con- 

 sideration of the circumstances, and upon urgent solicitation, repre- 

 sentatives from this office sprayed the few trees on the other prem- 

 ises with ''Scalecide." Another orchard of 16,000 peach trees has 

 just been planted at Candor, with full knowledge of the conditions, 

 the manager being familiar with the scale and expecting, as a 

 matter of course, to deal with it. 



Moore. — The first cases of San Jose Scale known in this State were 

 found around Southern Pines, and the peach industry was for some 

 time thought to be doomed to rapid destruction, but the growers with 

 gTeat energy and industry, by continually keeping abreast of the times 

 in regard to the latest and best remedies, have been able to keep their 

 "heads above water," so to speak, and it is safe to say that during the 

 last five years, with the scale widespread in the locality, that as much 

 money has been cleared from the peach crop as in any previous 

 similar length of time. In these orchards the practical control of the 

 San Jose Scale on a profitable basis is a solved problem, and the 

 Lime-sulphur Wash is the chief dependence. Some few growers 

 could not, or did not, stand the test, and for one reason or another 

 allowed their orchards to be killed out, which process was gi-eatly 

 hastened by borers and lack of artificial fertilizers. In the summer 

 of 1906 the seventh successive crop of peaches was shipped from 

 Southern Pines. This year (1907) the crop is almost a total failure 

 on account of very late spring freeze. Practically all orchards, 



