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tion of our trees here in the nursery and also fruiting trees, and can find 

 no trace whatever upon any of them of the San Jose scale or other scale. 

 Having read reports upon the San Jose scale, we are confident that we 

 could detect this insect if it existed upon our trees." {Bitlletifi 56 Dec, 

 1894, Ohio Agr. Exper. Stat., p. 83). 



It is fortunate that since this letter was written, such pressure has been 

 brought to bear upon the firm that it has taken the effective measures 

 for the destruction of the scale reported in the Rural New Yorker cited, 

 and in letters received from Dr. Smith. 



As no aid is to be obtained from the company toward the examination 

 of stock that it may have sent into the State of New York, request is 

 herewith made of each person who within the last five years has received 

 from the nurseries of the Lovett Company, Little Silver, N. J., fruit trees 

 and ornamental shrubs, or other plants on which the scale is known 

 to occur, that he will send his name to the State Entomologist, at Albany, 

 with mention of the fact. If the arrangement proposed can be carried 

 into effect, examinations will be made by competent persons of all such 

 stock for the detection of the scale if present. 



The San Jose Scale in Ohio. 

 It is learned from Prof. F. M. Webster, that an infested locality in Cler- 

 mont county, Ohio, had come to his notice in December of 1894. The 

 scale had probably been introduced in 1891 on apple trees purchased of the 

 Lovett Company, of Little Silver, N. J. Prof. Webster reports : "The 

 orchard comprised about 600 trees, probably one-third of which were 

 more or less infested — twenty-five at least so badly as to preclude all 

 possibility of saving them, and at least double that number that could 

 only be utilized by cutting off" the trunks at a short distance above the 

 ground and grafting them, first disinfecting the stumps. The pest had 

 been noticed the previous year. * * * A smaller orchard set at the 

 same time and with trees from the same nursery, was found infested to a 

 much less extent, though the scales were badly scattered through the 

 orchard. * * * xhe owners of these two orchards will take this 

 scale in hand and stamp out the pest before it gets a stronger foothold or 

 becomes more widely spread." [Bull. 56 Ohio Agr. Exper. Stat.) 



Description of the Scale. 

 The female scale, greatly enlarged is shown at Fig. 4 of Plate XII and 

 at b, in Fig. 2 of Plate XIII. It is flat, almost circular in outline, dark 

 mottled with gray in color, with a small elevated spot at or near its center 



