446 BOARD OF AGRtCtJLTUftfi. 



SCALE INFESTED LOCALITIES. 



Last year I reported the San Jose scale as having been found in 

 twenty-five counties. To this list is now to be added Allen, Bartholomew, 

 Grant, Johnson, Kosciusko, Marshall and Pulaski, making thirty-two in 

 all to date. Besides these just mentioned we have found eighteen new 

 localities where the scale has not been known before. In some instances 

 quite large orchards are infested, but in most cases the damage done Is 

 only slight as yet. My assistant (Mr. J. C. Marquis) reported that he 

 found the conditions in Switzerland County not so favorable as he could 

 wish; and in Jefferson County, near Madison, there seems to have been 

 a letting up on the spray pumps, as one or two orchards which, a year 

 ago, seemed to be practically free from the scale, were found to be well 

 covered again. Orchardists should remember that they are in this fight 

 to stay, and nothing short of eternal vigilance will win. About the same 

 condition exists in and around E'vansville as was reported a year ago, 

 except that the scale seems to be spreading to new localities. During the 

 summer my assistant visited the Southern Insane Hospital at Evansville 

 and found most of the trees and shrubbery on the grounds well infested 

 with the scale. Vigorous measures were at once applied by the superin- 

 tendent with good results. 



Mr. A. H. Goehler, of Wabash County, quite recently sent me speci- 

 mens of the San Jose scale which he found on trees and shrubbery in 

 several lots in the city of Marion while delivering some nursery stock. 

 I have not yet had time to investigate this point, so am unable to say just 

 how much teiTitory is covered by it. During last August I was called 

 to Johnson County to investigate an orchard some five miles east of Green- 

 wood, and found a well developed case of San Jose scale on plum and pear 

 trees, which had been planteU some five or six years and were undoubt- 

 edly infested when the trees came from an eastern nursery. Most of these 

 infested trees were destroyed, and by so doing a fine, young orchard near 

 by will undoubtedly escape the same fate. 



While on his way home from the Summer meeting of the Indiana Hort- 

 icultural Society, last August, Mr. H. H. Swaim, Assistant Inspector for 

 the northern end of the State, stopped at Fort Wayne and made some 

 investigations which resulted in finding several badly infested cases of 

 the scale inside the city limits. This was an important find, as there are 

 a number of quite large orchards and small fruit plantations in the im- 

 mediate vicinity, and this discovery will enable the owpers to take the 

 proper precautions to prevent its further spread. 



A number of other more or less isolated cases have been found, and I 

 am glad to report, that in every case the owners have been found to be 

 not only willing, but anxious to apply the remedies prescribed, which is a 

 very healthy indication. However, the more I investigate this matter 



