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  for 
  its 
  extermination 
  at 
  this 
  point. 
  Instructions 
  were 
  consequently 
  

   given 
  to 
  my 
  field 
  assistants, 
  Mr. 
  Braucher 
  and 
  Professor 
  Summers, 
  to 
  

   spray 
  thoroughly 
  those 
  orchards 
  or 
  parts 
  of 
  orchards 
  in 
  which 
  it 
  was 
  

   present 
  in 
  destructive 
  numbers, 
  and 
  to 
  treat 
  also 
  all 
  other 
  infested 
  

   vegetation 
  whence 
  it 
  was 
  likely 
  to 
  spread 
  within 
  a 
  year 
  to 
  new 
  territory, 
  

   thus 
  arresting 
  the 
  ravages 
  of 
  the 
  insect 
  where 
  it 
  was 
  doing 
  real 
  injury, 
  

   and 
  preventing 
  the 
  extension 
  of 
  the 
  area 
  infested 
  by 
  it. 
  These 
  measures 
  

   were 
  taken 
  with 
  the 
  expectation 
  of 
  returning 
  to 
  this 
  locality 
  after 
  the 
  

   fall 
  of 
  the 
  leaves 
  in 
  1S98 
  for 
  a 
  final 
  treatment 
  of 
  these 
  premises. 
  All 
  of 
  

   the 
  infested 
  property 
  on 
  the 
  ground 
  of 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  W. 
  Stanton, 
  where 
  the 
  scale 
  

   was 
  first 
  discovered 
  at 
  Richview, 
  was 
  thoroughly 
  sprayed 
  with 
  whale-oil 
  

   soap 
  in 
  February, 
  1S98, 
  — 
  some 
  sixteen 
  hundred 
  trees 
  in 
  all,— 
  -except 
  

   certain 
  badly 
  infested 
  trees 
  which 
  were 
  dug 
  out 
  and 
  burned. 
  In 
  addi- 
  

   tion 
  to 
  this 
  the 
  premises 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Jasper 
  Wilgus, 
  separated 
  from 
  those 
  of 
  

   Mr. 
  Stanton 
  by 
  a 
  country 
  road 
  and 
  a 
  high 
  hedge 
  fence, 
  were 
  very 
  gen- 
  

   erally 
  treated, 
  several 
  badly 
  infested 
  trees 
  being 
  destroyed 
  and 
  many 
  

   others 
  sprayed. 
  About 
  an 
  eighth 
  of 
  a 
  mile 
  of 
  hedge 
  was 
  cut 
  down 
  and 
  

   burned, 
  and 
  the 
  stumps 
  remaining 
  were 
  profusely 
  sprayed 
  with 
  kero- 
  

   sene. 
  From 
  the 
  orchard 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Chas. 
  Cooper, 
  all 
  trees 
  originally 
  

   found 
  infested 
  had 
  been 
  cut 
  out 
  and 
  destroyed, 
  but 
  a 
  few 
  remained 
  

   infested 
  February 
  14, 
  1898. 
  

  

  One 
  of 
  the 
  places 
  worst 
  infested, 
  a 
  mile 
  south 
  of 
  Richview, 
  on 
  the 
  

   estate 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Newcome, 
  contained 
  about 
  twenty-three 
  hundred 
  trees. 
  

   The 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  spring 
  weather 
  and 
  the 
  exhaustion 
  of 
  funds 
  avail- 
  

   able 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  prevented 
  the 
  thorough 
  treatment 
  of 
  these 
  premises, 
  

   but 
  the 
  trees 
  originally 
  infested 
  were 
  all 
  cut 
  out 
  and 
  extensive 
  spraying 
  

   was 
  done 
  with 
  the 
  object 
  of 
  exterminating 
  the 
  scale 
  from 
  the 
  orchard 
  

   worst 
  infested 
  and 
  of 
  reducing 
  its 
  numbers 
  in 
  other 
  parts 
  of 
  these 
  

   grounds 
  sufficiently 
  to 
  render 
  its 
  spread 
  unlikely. 
  Approximately 
  five 
  

   hundred 
  trees 
  were 
  sprayed 
  in 
  all 
  upon 
  these 
  premises, 
  leaving 
  only 
  a 
  

   few 
  partially 
  infested 
  trees 
  scattered 
  here 
  and 
  there. 
  Later 
  all 
  or 
  nearly 
  

   all 
  of 
  these 
  were 
  infected 
  with 
  a 
  fungus 
  parasite 
  of 
  the 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale, 
  

   as 
  will 
  be 
  described 
  in 
  another 
  section 
  of 
  this 
  article. 
  

  

  Half 
  a 
  mile 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  Newcome 
  place 
  a 
  single 
  apple-tree, 
  in 
  a 
  

   garden 
  belonging 
  to 
  Mr. 
  B. 
  F. 
  Johnson, 
  badly 
  infested 
  with 
  the 
  San 
  

   Jose 
  scale, 
  was 
  sprayed, 
  together 
  with 
  two 
  other 
  trees 
  adjacent 
  to 
  it. 
  A 
  

   single 
  infested 
  tree 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  detected 
  in 
  an 
  orchard 
  immediately 
  

   west 
  of 
  Richview, 
  rented 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Hamilton, 
  was 
  dug 
  out 
  and 
  destroyed 
  

   by 
  the 
  owner. 
  Although 
  no 
  scale 
  could 
  be 
  found 
  on 
  any 
  other 
  orchard 
  

   tree, 
  eighteen 
  or 
  twenty 
  trees 
  immediately 
  surrounding 
  were 
  thoroughly 
  

   sprayed 
  by 
  Professor 
  Summers, 
  and 
  a 
  large 
  osage-orange 
  hedge 
  beside 
  

   this 
  orchard 
  was 
  cut 
  out. 
  

  

  