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scale. This has been brought about, in some cases, by adopting heroic 

 measures, that of cutting down and burning, but I am satisfied that the 

 end has justified tlie means. 



Only two infested localities have been found in Marion County out- 

 side the city of Indianapolis, and these have been practically cleaned up, 

 but the city itself has been very seriously infested. The source of this in- 

 festation is not known to me, except that the trees were bought from a 

 traveling agent representing some foreign nlu-sery. Owing to the limited 

 amount of means at my disposal, I was unable to do justice to this place 

 single-handed, but by enlisting the co-operation of the City Forester and 

 Superintendent of Parks, Mr. J. Clyde Power, we have succeeded in ac- 

 complishing a large amount of work along this line. A most systematic 

 search was made in every part of West Indianapolis, where the scale was 

 most abundant and both verbal and written notices given to the prop- 

 erty owners to remove or spray such trees as were infested with the scale. 

 In addition to this Mr. Power placed a competent man in the field with 

 a spray pump and a supply of petroleum with instructions to cut and 

 burn every tree that was past recovery, and spray the rest. As a result 

 nearly 2,000 places have been visited within the past two years. More than 

 1,000 trees and shrubs have lieen ordered cut and burned, and nearly 500 

 sprayed. But the scale has found a lodgment in other parts of the city, in 

 some cases near the parks, so that the work here is not yet accomplished 

 by any means. It is to be hoped that the City Park Commissioners will 

 see this matter in its true light and appropriate sufiicient funds for caiTy- 

 ing on the work during the coming year. 



In Jefferson County, where the San Jose scale was formerly very 

 abundant, especially near the city of Madison, the fruit growers have 

 taken the matter up and have combatted it with such success that I now 

 know of but two infested orchards in this county. One of these is near 

 Madison and the other near Hanover. 



In Perry County the scale had become well established in two or three 

 localities not far from the Ohio River. My assistant visited that locality 

 in July and prescribed a remedy which was at once applied by those 

 immediately interested. Those trees which were infested the worst were 

 cut down and burned and the remainder were sprayed with the whale 

 oil soap solution. If the general spirit of progress and eagerness to learn 

 how to combat these pests shown by the fruit gi'owers in this locality 

 could be found all over the State the work of the State Entomologist 

 would be reduced to a minimum. It is safe to say that Perry County will 

 soon be free from the presence of the San Jose scale. 



In Vanderburgh County, near the city of Evansville, the situation is 

 different. The San Jose scale had become well established before it was 

 discovered. Over fifty different orchards and city lots were found to be 

 infested. A large per cent, of these have been well cleaned up, but other 

 outbreaks are being discovered so that the problem has become a serious 



