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ested in commercial fruit growing are urged to send in their names and 

 addresses at once if they are not already in touch with this office. At 

 present our list includes about 1,500 names, but there must, be many 

 more. Also send names of your acquaintances who are likewise inter- 

 ested. This is an important work which is for the benefit of our fruit 

 industry, and we wish those who are interested to take full advantage of 

 it. Address, Division of Entomology, State Department of Agriculture, 

 Raleigh, N". C, or address the writer, at Raleigh. 



Persons who especially desire to have their orchards inspected should 

 make request and we will attend to it when we can. Remember, however, 

 that there is but one inspector for the entire State, and as he has both 

 orchard and nursery inspection duties, we cannot promise to answer 

 every call, nor to answer any call promptly. Often the work is mapped 

 out a month or more in advance. 



Inspections in 1907 and 1908. — During the two years of 1907 and 

 1908 inspections were made of 82 small or family orchards which con- 

 tained a total of 3,875 trees. With these small orchards we have in the 

 past only kept record of those which are infested with the San Jose 

 Scale, so all of these 82 orchards were more or less infested. 



Of commercial orchards there were inspected during these two years 

 (1907 and 1908) 258 orchards, which contained a total of 472,138 trees 

 (nearly half a million). Of these 258 orchards 133 (or about 51 per 

 cent) were found to be infested with the San Jose Scale, aDd these 133 

 infested orchards contained a total of 282,572 trees. 



The following table gives in condensed form the conditions as shown 

 by the inspections of 1907 and 1908 : 



