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and to distribute it to the horticulturists with the hope that by calling 

 attention to the damage that would result from the presence of this 

 insect, and by describing and illustrating it people owning infested 

 trees would recognize it and take means to exterminate the eame, and 

 inform the station of the infection. Strange as it may seem, not a 

 single infection was reported as a direct result of the circular; but 

 incidentally through correspondence this station located three private 

 orchards that were badly infested. 



Having thus proven the presence of the San Jose scal'e within 

 Missouri, and having traced the source of the infection to two New 

 Jersey nurseries, these two nurseries were asked to furnish a list of 

 Missouri customers to whom nursery stock had been shipped during 

 the time their nurseries were, unknown to them at the time, infested. 

 They kindly complied with the request, which resulted in three hun- 

 dred and ten names. Circular letters were then mailed to each person, 

 and the reports received were culled in order to separate the more 

 probable infested localities, and lessen the time and expense of a per- 

 sonal inspection. The Legislature having failed to appropriate funds 

 ($1,000 was asked for) for the San Jose scale investigation and exter- 

 mination, the State Horticultural Society gave $200 toward the work. 

 The suspected orchards were therefore inspected as far as the funds 

 at our command would permit, and as a result of the inspection twenty 

 private orchards were found to be infested, while thirty suspected or- 

 chards remain uninspected, which, if they could be visited, would, no 

 doubt, add to the list of those already known. 



Some of the infested orchards are now completely ruined, while 

 others may be saved in part provided immediate and strenuous efforts 

 be made to exterminate the scale. In the majority of infested locali- 

 ties the scale can now be exterminated for a comparatively small sum 

 of money; but in other places the insect has spread over such a wide 

 area, and infests so many ornamental, shade and forest trees, as well 

 as fruit trees and bushes, that unless the Legislature at once appro- 

 priate several thousand dollars for the work of extermination, the San 

 Jose scale will always be with us, for in many places it is now beyond 

 private control. 



The exact localities of the infected orchards are aq follows: 



Marshfield, Webster county, Missouri, one family orchard. 



Norborne, Carroll county, Missouri, one orchard 2* miles south. 



Jefferson City, Cole county, Missouri, two orchards 2 miles west 

 and one orchard 4 miles west. 



Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, one orchard 1 

 mile west. 



