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THE EEPOKT OF THE 



Xo. 36 



Total number of trees examined 157,065 



Number of trees of 1910 planting destroyed ' 7 



Number of trees of 1911 planting destroyed 345 



Number of ti'ees of 1912 planting destroyed 34I 



Total number of trees destroyed .• 693 



Percentage of total planting of 1910-11-12 destroyed 0.4414 



Estimated percentage of trees of 1912 planting infected 30 



Number of nurserymen shipping stock infected with living San Jose Scale 



into Nova Scotia g 



The infected properties were scattered over Hants, Kings, Annapolis, Digby 

 and Yarmouth Counties or about 175 miles of territory. In most cases the trees 

 showed signs of fumigation and a large proportion of the trees in 1912 plantings 

 showed most of the Scale to be dead. It was common to find only one or two 



Fig. 17. — San Jose Scale; an infested twig, scales and larvae on back much enlarged. 



trees bearing living Scale in a lot of 100, while often 50 to 60 per cent, bore dead 

 Scale. Only one lot apparently arrived in 1912, which had not been fumigated. 

 Lots of one variety from one nursery almost invariably bore living San Jose Scale. 

 Whenever Scale was present on this variety, it was alive, and on the more heavily 

 infested lots there was no dead Scale beyond the ordinary winter-kill. In one lot 

 of 100 of tliese trees the inspectors destroyed 25, the highest percentage fouu'd. 

 In closing, mention must be made of the high class of work done throughout 

 by -the inspectors and to the attitude of the fruit growers of the Valley to the 

 work in hand. Soon after the work started, the Valley was flooded by letters from 

 Ontario nurserymen, some assuring people that their trees were absolutely clean, 

 that they had never had Scale in their nursery, and that if their trees bore Scale 

 it had got on the stock after planting in Nova Scotia. Others cited well-known 

 authorities to say that it was impossible for living Scale to be on their trees after 

 the treatment they had received, and asked if they were sure that the inspctors. 



