﻿Louisiana 
  from 
  Idaho. 
  It 
  came 
  to 
  New 
  Jersey 
  from 
  California, 
  in 
  

   1886 
  or 
  188"/. 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  former 
  State 
  was 
  most 
  widely 
  distributed 
  

   throughout 
  the 
  East, 
  in 
  the 
  shipment 
  of 
  infested 
  nursery 
  stock. 
  The 
  

   states 
  now 
  reported 
  to 
  have 
  become 
  infested 
  from 
  this 
  center 
  of 
  

   dispersal 
  are 
  New 
  York, 
  Pennsylvania, 
  Delaware, 
  Maryland, 
  Vir- 
  

   ginia. 
  West 
  Virginia. 
  Georgia. 
  Ohio. 
  Indiana, 
  Illinois 
  and 
  Michigan. 
  

  

  In 
  Illinois. 
  — 
  The 
  earliest 
  ascertained 
  introduction 
  of 
  the 
  San 
  

   Jose 
  scale 
  into 
  Illinois 
  was 
  not 
  earlier 
  than 
  1886 
  nor 
  later 
  than 
  1891. 
  

   Mr. 
  J. 
  B. 
  Hayer, 
  a 
  fruit 
  grower 
  at 
  Sparta, 
  in 
  the 
  southwest 
  part 
  of 
  

   the 
  State, 
  whose 
  premises 
  are 
  now 
  very 
  badly 
  infested, 
  imported 
  

   miscellaneous 
  nursery 
  stock 
  from 
  an 
  infested 
  New 
  Jersey 
  nursery 
  at 
  

   various 
  intervals 
  between 
  these 
  years, 
  stopping 
  with 
  the 
  last. 
  It 
  

   was 
  imported 
  again 
  to 
  Sparta 
  from 
  New 
  Jersey 
  in 
  1892 
  and 
  in 
  1894, 
  

   and 
  to 
  Mt. 
  Carmel 
  at 
  some 
  time 
  not 
  now 
  ascertainal)le. 
  The 
  scale 
  

   was 
  also 
  brought 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  New 
  Jersey 
  district 
  to 
  Rich 
  view, 
  in 
  

   Washington 
  county, 
  and 
  to 
  Auburn, 
  in 
  Sangamon 
  county, 
  in 
  1891. 
  

   These 
  four 
  localities 
  are 
  now 
  much 
  the 
  most 
  seriously 
  and 
  generally 
  

   infested 
  of 
  all 
  in 
  this 
  State, 
  the 
  Sparta 
  neighborhood 
  much 
  the 
  

   worst 
  of 
  all. 
  

  

  In 
  1898 
  it 
  was 
  introduced 
  at 
  Collinsville, 
  in 
  Madison 
  county, 
  and 
  

   in 
  1893 
  or 
  1894 
  at 
  Monroe 
  Center, 
  in 
  Ogle 
  county. 
  In 
  this 
  latter 
  

   year. 
  1894, 
  it 
  was 
  repeatedly 
  brought 
  into 
  Illinois: 
  to 
  Quincy 
  and 
  

   Paloma. 
  in 
  Adams 
  county; 
  to 
  Tremont, 
  in 
  Tazewell 
  county; 
  to 
  West 
  

   Salem, 
  in 
  Edwards 
  county; 
  to 
  Ernst, 
  in 
  Clark 
  county; 
  to 
  a 
  farm 
  in 
  

   the 
  eastern 
  edge 
  of 
  Edgar 
  county; 
  and 
  to 
  Villa 
  Ridge, 
  in 
  Pulaski 
  

   county. 
  This 
  was 
  the 
  year 
  of 
  its 
  discovery 
  and 
  recognition 
  in 
  the 
  

   East, 
  since 
  which 
  time 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  brought 
  into 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  Illinois, 
  

   so 
  far 
  as 
  we 
  now 
  know, 
  but 
  once 
  — 
  to 
  Herrick, 
  in 
  the 
  southern 
  part 
  of 
  

   Shelby 
  county, 
  in 
  1895 
  — 
  again 
  from 
  an 
  Ohio 
  dealer. 
  The 
  dates 
  of 
  

   its 
  introduction 
  at 
  New 
  City. 
  Tower 
  Hill,Mascoutah, 
  and 
  Mt. 
  Carmel 
  

   are, 
  however, 
  unknown 
  to 
  me. 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  twenty-one 
  colonies 
  thus 
  far 
  detected 
  in 
  Illinois 
  fourteen 
  

   were 
  certainly 
  imported 
  from 
  New 
  Jersey; 
  three 
  came 
  directly 
  from 
  

   ,a 
  dealer 
  in 
  eastern 
  Ohio 
  who 
  does 
  not 
  grow 
  his 
  stock; 
  and 
  one 
  was 
  

   shipped 
  on 
  an 
  order 
  tilled 
  l)y 
  a 
  nurseryman 
  at 
  Rochester, 
  New 
  York. 
  

   The 
  origin 
  of 
  those 
  remaining 
  is 
  not 
  certainly 
  known. 
  Those 
  from 
  

   eastern 
  Ohio 
  were 
  on 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  trees 
  in 
  each 
  case, 
  obtained 
  from 
  

   dealers 
  in 
  nursery 
  stock 
  and 
  not 
  grown 
  at 
  the 
  localities 
  from 
  which 
  

   they 
  were 
  shipped 
  into 
  Illinois. 
  That 
  from 
  Rochester 
  was 
  imported 
  

   to 
  Illinois 
  on 
  currant 
  bushes 
  said 
  by 
  the 
  nurseryman 
  from' 
  whom 
  

   they 
  were 
  bought 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  obtained 
  from 
  a 
  New 
  Jersey 
  grower 
  

   whose 
  stock 
  is 
  now 
  known 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  infested 
  at 
  the 
  time. 
  We 
  

   thus 
  see 
  that 
  the 
  only 
  infested 
  districts 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  now 
  clearly 
  

   ascertained 
  that 
  the 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale 
  has 
  been 
  introduced 
  into 
  Illinois 
  

   are 
  the 
  above-mentioned 
  New 
  Jersey 
  nurseries. 
  The 
  facts 
  concern- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  New 
  Jersey 
  outbreak 
  have 
  been 
  so 
  often 
  rehearsed 
  in 
  ento- 
  

   mological 
  bulletins 
  from 
  several 
  states 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

  

  