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Middleton, Berwick and Kentville. As it could not be determined if the Scale ou 

 1913 trees was living or dead the trees of 1911 planting were first examined. 

 About one week after starting, living Scale was found on five trees of 1910 planting. 

 This, together with the fact that the nurseryman's lists were very slow in 

 arriving, and in some cases very inaccurate as well as incomplete, compelled a 

 change of programme. The lists for the time were abandoned and a house to 

 house canvass of the whole Annapolis Valley for trees of 1910-11-12 planting from 

 any point outside of Nova Scotia. On the first inspection all trees of 1910-11 

 planting were carefully examined, and on the second inspection which started 

 about July 20th, all trees of 1912 planting were carefully examined and infested 

 plantings of 1910 and 1911 looked over for the second time. During September 

 inspectors were sent to the districts lying near the Valley and to the counties of 

 Digby, Yarmouth, Queens, Shelburne and Lunenburg, while the Chief Provincial 

 Inspector with our assistant remained in tlie Valley to make a more thorough in- 

 spection of some plantings which were in doubt and to attend to complaints and 

 reports of uninspected stock, etc. 



Pig. 16. — Part of stem infested with San Jose Scale. 



During the season, the whole western portion of Nova, Scotia has been 

 covered. Every suspicious tree of which any trace could be obtained examined, 

 and every house in the Annapolis Valley between Windsor and Digby visited in 

 the effort to locate all recently planted nursery stock. In all 157,065 trees of 

 1910-11-12 planting, distributed on 1,742 properties throughout Kings, Annapolis, 

 Hants. Digby, Yarmouth, Shelburne and Lunenburg Counties were examined. 

 The following table gives the results of the summer's work: 



