216 Forty-ninth Kefort on the State Museum 



From a Bulletin entitled "The San Jose Scale in New Jersey " {^Bulle- 

 tin 1 06 of the New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station), 

 prepared by Dr. J. B. Smith, Entomologist of the Station, and issued in 

 January, 1895, we learn that the introduction of the scale in New Jersey 

 occurred either in 1886 or 1887, upon a " Kelsey " plum ordered by the 

 two nurseries under the representation of its being curculio proof, from 

 the San Jose district, California. It is also known that some Idaho pear 

 stock brought from nurseries on the Pacific Coast were also infested. 



As soon as Dr. Smith became aware (in April 1894) of the existence 

 of the scale in the State, he at once, with his accustomed energy, entered 

 upon the task of finding the nurseries from which the infested stock had 

 been sent, and so far as possible, the other infested localities within the 

 limits of the State. Two large and well-known nurseries, widely separ- 

 ated, were soon located, and these, so far as could be ascertained, were 

 the only distributing centers. The owners, upon being informed of the 

 dangerous character of the pest that they were harboring, and the effect 

 that it might have upon their business in the future, immediately took 

 active steps for stamping out the insect upon their bearing trees, upon 

 which it mainly occurred, and promised to prevent, through fumigation 

 or otherwise, further shipment of infested stock. In one of the nurseries 

 several blocks of young stock were at once torn up and burned. 



The scale had been distributed from these nurseries to a number of 

 orchards throughout the State (nearly one hundred were known to Dr. 

 Smith), but nowhere in sufficient numbers to have spread from the orchard 

 in which it was at first introduced. In all of these, it is believed that 

 measures will be taken by their owners for the prevention of further 

 spread, and toward extermination. 



The work will be carefully watched, and, with our knowledge of the 

 zeal, persistence, and ability shown by Dr. Smith in all of hi*^ operations 

 against the noxious msects that are so unfortunate as to intrude within 

 his jurisdiction, we have every assurance that, if extermination is possible, 

 it will be speedily effected. 



The Two Infested New Jersey Nurseries. 

 The interest felt among the fruit-growers of New York in the New Jer- 

 sey nurseries, from which large purchases have been made e.ich year, has 

 been already mentioned, and will warrant a more particular reference to 

 their present condition. Quite a satisfactory account of one, and an en- 

 couraging account of the other, can be given, based on letter- from Dr. 

 Smith, from correspondence with the proprietors of the nurseries at the 



