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a ploasuiv to Iv able to say that a largo poreeutage of all the active 

 oivhai\Hsts in Xe\v Jersey eome tip to the standard required by 

 scale conditions, and a matter of regret that some oreliards yet 

 remain to men Avho lack either disposition or ability to cave for 

 them. 



Mr. Dickei-son, as the ivsult of the orchard inspection ^vork done 

 by him as assistant to the State Entomologist, writes : "On the 

 whole, the orchards are in mnch better condition, so far as the sc-;ile 

 is concerned, than rhey were a few years ago, and I believe they 

 Mill continue to improve. The majority of the growei's who have 

 any number of good K\n-ing trees are spraying, and it is safe to 

 say that few, if any, are setting out trees without the knowledge 

 that they will have to deal with the scale — a point in which they 

 are materially helped by the fact that the trees which go to them 

 from the nui"series are g-enerally clean. !^[any of the neglect^i 

 i>rchards have died and have been removed, so while there are some 

 hei-e and there, they are not so pivminent as they were a few yesars 

 agx\ This is well illnstrateil by conditions in one of the peach dis- 

 tricts of Hunterdon county, perhaps the leading peiich-growiug 

 section of the State, The orchards throughout tliis i-egion bec^ime 

 more or le^^s infested; the growei^s at that time knew little about 

 the scale : they did not believe the stories told of it, or believed it 

 could not be controlled, and spraying was done in many eases 

 taixlily and inetfectively, or not at all. The result was that many 

 of the trees were lost, and a few yeai"S ago dead oivhards could l>e 

 seen scatteivd throughout the region. Last summer in driving 

 tlii"Ough this vicinity I observed few dead and dying tives. I foimd 

 most of the orchards, many of which have l^een sprayed with lime, 

 sidphur and salt, in very clean condition, and there are some line 

 young orchards coming on. ^lost of the growers are doing what 

 they can to keep the scale in check, and there is an inci-easing feel- 

 ing that those who do not should Ix? comj^elled to do so. 



There seems to be also a feeling that the senile is disappearing 

 and i-eports have come that it is not so prevalent this year as last. 

 It is true that for some reason varieties which ai-e usually much 

 infested are occasionally uninfested even among badly infested 

 trees, and it may be that local weather conditions may have aided 

 slightlv in keeping the insect in chtvk. It may be also that this 

 ftvliuij is due to the fact that most of the g^x>d trees are being c^ired 



