﻿At 
  Manito, 
  in 
  Mason 
  county, 
  on 
  the 
  farm 
  of 
  Mr. 
  P, 
  B. 
  Stem, 
  about 
  

   lialf 
  of 
  a 
  twelve-acre 
  peach 
  and 
  apple 
  orchard, 
  and 
  twenty 
  rods 
  of 
  osage- 
  

   orange 
  hedge 
  adjoining 
  were 
  quite 
  generally 
  infested 
  by 
  the 
  San 
  Jose 
  

   scale. 
  Numerous 
  other 
  osage-orange 
  hedges, 
  extending 
  in 
  all 
  directions 
  

   in 
  this 
  infested 
  tract 
  and 
  containing 
  many 
  nests 
  of 
  birds, 
  were 
  not 
  

   visibly 
  infested 
  by 
  the 
  scale. 
  The 
  pest 
  was 
  evidently 
  introduced 
  to 
  this 
  

   place 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  six 
  apple-trees 
  obtained 
  from 
  the 
  Pomona 
  Nurseries, 
  

   in 
  New 
  Jersey, 
  in 
  1891. 
  These 
  trees 
  were 
  first 
  to 
  die, 
  but 
  later 
  the 
  trees 
  

   surrounding 
  them 
  gradually 
  perished. 
  

  

  At 
  Assumption, 
  in 
  Christian 
  county, 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  orchard 
  on 
  a 
  city 
  

   lot 
  belonging 
  to 
  Mr, 
  H. 
  Tobias, 
  a 
  pear-tree 
  was 
  found 
  badly 
  incrusted 
  

   with 
  the 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale, 
  in 
  the 
  midst 
  of 
  a 
  few 
  other 
  trees, 
  apple, 
  peach, 
  

   and 
  cherry, 
  through 
  which 
  the 
  insect 
  was 
  scattered 
  less 
  abundantly. 
  

   The 
  pear-tree 
  on 
  which 
  it 
  had 
  apparently 
  been 
  introduced 
  was 
  obtained 
  

   by 
  mail 
  from 
  a 
  Philadelphia 
  nursery 
  two 
  years 
  before. 
  It 
  had 
  made 
  but 
  

   little 
  growth, 
  and 
  was 
  only 
  about 
  three 
  feet 
  high. 
  Four 
  other 
  pear- 
  

   trees 
  received 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  firm 
  were 
  not 
  in- 
  

   fested. 
  

  

  At 
  Walnut 
  Prairie, 
  in 
  Clark 
  county, 
  two 
  orchards 
  infested 
  by 
  the 
  

   San 
  Jose 
  scale 
  were 
  found 
  as 
  the 
  result 
  of 
  a 
  letter 
  of 
  inquiry 
  addressed 
  

   to 
  me 
  February 
  i6th 
  by 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  H. 
  Baird, 
  of 
  Marshall, 
  III. 
  One 
  of 
  these 
  

   places, 
  belonging 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Kreager, 
  had 
  become 
  infested 
  from 
  the 
  other, 
  

   belonging 
  to 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  Cline. 
  On 
  the 
  latter, 
  situated 
  a 
  mile 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  

   east 
  of 
  the 
  station 
  of 
  Walnut 
  Prairie, 
  both 
  apple- 
  and 
  pear-trees 
  were 
  

   infested, 
  while 
  on 
  the 
  former, 
  plum- 
  and 
  apple-trees 
  and 
  currant 
  bushes 
  

   were 
  involved. 
  The 
  precise 
  origin 
  of 
  the 
  scale 
  at 
  this 
  place 
  could 
  not 
  

   be 
  clearly 
  ascertained. 
  It 
  was, 
  however, 
  ])robably 
  brought 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  

   pear-trees 
  bought 
  from 
  a 
  tree 
  peddler 
  at 
  Marshall. 
  

  

  Knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  the 
  scale 
  near 
  Alhambra, 
  in 
  Mad- 
  

   ison 
  county, 
  came 
  to 
  nie 
  as 
  a 
  result 
  of 
  a 
  personal 
  inquiry 
  from 
  Mr. 
  !>. 
  A. 
  

   Pearce, 
  a 
  farmer 
  of 
  that 
  neighborhood. 
  The 
  infested 
  apple 
  orchard, 
  

   owned 
  by 
  Mr. 
  C. 
  S. 
  Frame, 
  is 
  three 
  and 
  a 
  luilf 
  miles 
  northwest 
  of 
  

   Alhambra. 
  About 
  thirty 
  trees, 
  all 
  large, 
  were 
  very 
  badly 
  infested, 
  

   together 
  with 
  several 
  large 
  elm-trees 
  near 
  the 
  orchard. 
  The 
  former 
  

   owner 
  of 
  this 
  place, 
  from 
  whom 
  Mr. 
  Frame 
  had 
  bought 
  it 
  a 
  few 
  months 
  

   before, 
  had 
  obtained 
  his 
  trees 
  from 
  a 
  great 
  variety 
  of 
  sources, 
  and 
  it 
  

   was 
  consequently 
  impossible 
  to 
  trace 
  this 
  outbreak 
  to 
  its 
  origin. 
  

  

  The 
  occurrence 
  of 
  the 
  scale 
  in 
  an 
  orchard 
  near 
  Mt. 
  Carmel 
  was 
  

   reported 
  by 
  Dr. 
  J. 
  Schneck 
  of 
  that 
  place 
  and 
  verified 
  by 
  a 
  visit 
  of 
  

   inspection 
  made 
  by 
  my 
  Assistant, 
  Mr. 
  Braucher, 
  in 
  October, 
  1898. 
  It 
  

   is 
  there 
  well 
  distributed 
  among 
  about 
  four 
  hundred 
  trees 
  belonging 
  to 
  

   Mr. 
  C. 
  C. 
  Lingenfelter, 
  on 
  a 
  farm 
  about 
  two 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  miles 
  from 
  town. 
  

  

  