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  to 
  trace 
  the 
  original 
  importation 
  to 
  its 
  source. 
  Peach-, 
  apple-, 
  pear-, 
  

   cherry-, 
  quince-, 
  and 
  plum-trees, 
  rose 
  bushes, 
  and 
  currant 
  bushes 
  

   were 
  all 
  infested 
  at 
  this 
  place. 
  

  

  At 
  Richview, 
  in 
  Washington 
  county, 
  in 
  a 
  young 
  eight-acre 
  orchard, 
  

   nearly 
  all 
  pears, 
  belonging 
  to 
  Dr. 
  J. 
  W. 
  Stanton, 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  

   trees 
  were 
  found 
  dead 
  and 
  completely 
  covered 
  with 
  the 
  San 
  Jose 
  

   scale, 
  the 
  greater 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  others 
  in 
  this 
  plot 
  being 
  also 
  more 
  or 
  

   less 
  infested. 
  A 
  few 
  scales 
  were 
  found 
  even 
  on 
  the 
  Kieffer 
  pears, 
  

   although 
  none 
  of 
  these 
  trees 
  were 
  seriously 
  affected. 
  A 
  part 
  at 
  least 
  

   of 
  the 
  infested 
  trees 
  were 
  originally 
  from 
  New 
  Jersey. 
  From 
  this 
  

   place 
  the 
  scale 
  has 
  spread 
  into 
  an 
  old 
  orchard 
  adjoining, 
  belonging 
  

   to 
  Mr. 
  Rice. 
  A 
  few 
  San 
  Jose 
  scales 
  were 
  also 
  found 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  pear 
  

   orchard 
  belonging 
  to 
  Jasper 
  Willgus 
  on 
  stock 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  source 
  

   as 
  the 
  preceding. 
  

  

  Much 
  the 
  most 
  serious 
  condition 
  of 
  affairs 
  with 
  respect 
  to 
  the 
  San 
  

   Jose 
  scale 
  thus 
  far 
  found 
  by 
  us 
  is 
  that 
  disclosed 
  by 
  letters 
  from 
  Mr. 
  

   J. 
  B. 
  Hayer, 
  at 
  Sparta. 
  Randolph 
  county, 
  and 
  by 
  the 
  subsequent 
  re- 
  

   ports 
  of 
  inspectors 
  from 
  my 
  office 
  who 
  have 
  visited 
  this 
  place 
  re- 
  

   peatedly 
  since 
  last 
  December. 
  Mr. 
  Hayer's 
  New 
  Jersey 
  importations 
  

   were 
  made 
  at 
  various 
  times 
  from 
  five 
  to 
  ten 
  years 
  ago, 
  and 
  since 
  that 
  

   period 
  he 
  has 
  lost 
  about 
  a 
  thousand 
  bearing 
  apple-, 
  peach- 
  and 
  pear- 
  

   trees 
  from 
  this 
  scale. 
  He 
  has 
  now 
  about 
  seven 
  hundred 
  trees 
  on 
  his 
  

   farm, 
  all 
  of 
  which 
  except 
  his 
  Kieffer 
  pears 
  are. 
  badly 
  infested 
  with 
  

   the 
  scale, 
  many 
  of 
  them 
  being 
  completely 
  incrusted. 
  The 
  same 
  scale 
  

   was 
  found 
  on 
  this 
  farm 
  on 
  elm 
  trees, 
  wild 
  crab-apples 
  and 
  rose 
  bushes, 
  

   and 
  on 
  osage 
  orange 
  hedges 
  beside 
  the 
  orchard. 
  It 
  has 
  also 
  spread 
  

   to 
  three 
  other 
  orchards 
  adjoining 
  on 
  the 
  north, 
  west 
  and 
  south, 
  and 
  

   has 
  been 
  transferred 
  by 
  budding 
  to 
  the 
  orchard 
  of 
  a 
  son-in-law 
  of 
  Mr. 
  

   Hayer, 
  Mr. 
  Mann, 
  living 
  some 
  four 
  miles 
  from 
  town. 
  Mr. 
  Hayer 
  

   has 
  applied 
  various 
  insecticides 
  from 
  time 
  to 
  time, 
  some 
  of 
  them 
  with 
  

   moderate 
  success, 
  biit 
  has 
  practically 
  given 
  up 
  trying 
  to 
  raise 
  peaches 
  

   and 
  apples 
  and 
  buys 
  now 
  only 
  the 
  Kieffer 
  pear. 
  Two 
  other 
  fruit- 
  

   growers 
  near 
  this 
  town, 
  Mr. 
  John 
  Robinson 
  andMr. 
  W.H.Grant, 
  have 
  

   also 
  imported 
  the 
  scale 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  New 
  Jersey 
  situation, 
  and 
  have 
  

   it 
  now 
  in 
  their 
  orchards 
  near 
  this 
  town. 
  

  

  From 
  Villa 
  Ridge, 
  in 
  Pulaski 
  county, 
  Mr. 
  C. 
  C. 
  Spaulding 
  sent 
  me, 
  

   the 
  first 
  of 
  March, 
  pieces 
  of 
  twigs 
  from 
  a 
  Transcendent 
  crab-apple 
  

   tree 
  obtained 
  from 
  a 
  tree 
  dealer 
  in 
  Ohio 
  in 
  the 
  fall 
  of 
  1894, 
  the 
  con- 
  

   dition 
  of 
  which 
  had 
  attracted 
  his 
  attention 
  sufficiently 
  to 
  lead 
  to 
  his 
  

   treating 
  it 
  with 
  i^vire 
  kerosene. 
  An 
  examination 
  of 
  these 
  specimens 
  

   showed 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  the 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale. 
  Fur- 
  

   ther 
  search 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Spaulding, 
  made 
  upon 
  the 
  receipt 
  of 
  this 
  informa- 
  

   tion, 
  resulted 
  in 
  the 
  sending 
  of 
  several 
  additional 
  specimens 
  bearing 
  

   scale 
  insects, 
  none 
  of 
  which, 
  however, 
  were 
  of 
  this 
  species; 
  but 
  a 
  sub- 
  

   sequent 
  inspection 
  made 
  by 
  Mr. 
  R. 
  W. 
  Braucher, 
  an 
  Assistant 
  of 
  the 
  

   office, 
  showed 
  that 
  one 
  large 
  and 
  ten 
  smaller 
  peach-trees 
  growing 
  in 
  

   the 
  immediate 
  neighborhood 
  of 
  the 
  tree 
  originally 
  worst 
  infested 
  also 
  

   bore 
  the 
  scale 
  in 
  comparatively 
  small 
  numbers. 
  An 
  inspection 
  of 
  

   the 
  other 
  trees 
  and 
  shrubs 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  was 
  made 
  with 
  only 
  nega- 
  

   tive 
  results. 
  

  

  