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  A 
  prolonged 
  inspection 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Stanton's 
  orchards 
  at 
  this 
  

   place, 
  made 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Braucher 
  early 
  in 
  November, 
  showed 
  substantially 
  

   the 
  same 
  results 
  as 
  in 
  those 
  previously 
  described. 
  The 
  great 
  mass 
  of 
  

   the 
  scales 
  had 
  been 
  killed, 
  but 
  everywhere 
  enough 
  remained 
  to 
  give 
  

   origin 
  to 
  a 
  new 
  attack, 
  which 
  in 
  a 
  short 
  period 
  of 
  years 
  would 
  equal 
  in 
  

   destructiveness 
  the 
  one 
  suppressed 
  by 
  our 
  insecticide 
  operations. 
  Fif- 
  

   teen 
  hundred 
  and 
  forty-four 
  trees 
  were 
  sprayed 
  in 
  this 
  orchard 
  of 
  dwarf 
  

   pears, 
  and 
  of 
  these, 
  fourteen 
  hundred 
  and 
  nine 
  were 
  examined 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   Braucher 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  November. 
  Not 
  less 
  than 
  one 
  hundred 
  and 
  seven 
  

   of 
  these 
  trees 
  still 
  showed 
  the 
  living 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale 
  — 
  in 
  a 
  great 
  majority 
  

   of 
  the 
  cases 
  in 
  small 
  numbers 
  only, 
  but 
  quite 
  numerous 
  on 
  here 
  and 
  

   there 
  a 
  tree. 
  

  

  As 
  a 
  general 
  result 
  of 
  the 
  operations 
  above 
  described 
  it 
  appears 
  

   that 
  the 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale 
  has 
  been 
  exterminated 
  in 
  seven* 
  out 
  of 
  twenty- 
  

   one 
  places 
  treated, 
  namely, 
  at 
  Dundee, 
  Monroe 
  Center, 
  Sandford, 
  Ver- 
  

   milion, 
  Ernst, 
  Herrick, 
  and 
  Paloma, 
  but 
  that 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  conspicuous 
  

   traces 
  of 
  its 
  presence 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  all 
  the 
  fourteen 
  others, 
  f 
  On 
  

   several 
  of 
  these 
  fourteen 
  premises 
  it 
  was 
  wholly 
  killed 
  on 
  many 
  badly 
  

   infested 
  trees, 
  but 
  in 
  none 
  of 
  them 
  on 
  all. 
  Even 
  at 
  Quincy, 
  where 
  a 
  

   single 
  small 
  orchard 
  was 
  sprayed, 
  at 
  intervals, 
  three 
  times 
  in 
  a 
  very 
  

   thoroughgoing 
  manner, 
  enough 
  of 
  the 
  scales 
  survived 
  to 
  reproduce 
  the 
  

   original 
  condition 
  in 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  years 
  at 
  most. 
  The 
  places 
  where 
  the 
  

   scale 
  was 
  completely 
  destroyed 
  were 
  those 
  where 
  it 
  had 
  made 
  least 
  

   headway 
  and 
  where 
  everything 
  seen 
  to 
  be 
  infested 
  was 
  promptly 
  cut 
  up 
  

   and 
  burned, 
  this 
  destruction 
  being 
  reinforced 
  in 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  cases 
  by 
  a 
  

   general 
  spraying 
  of 
  everything 
  in 
  the 
  immediate 
  neighborhood 
  on 
  which 
  

   the 
  scale 
  could 
  live. 
  There 
  seems, 
  on 
  the 
  whole, 
  little 
  likelihood 
  that 
  

   the 
  spraying 
  method 
  can 
  be 
  depended 
  on 
  even 
  where 
  most 
  thoroughly 
  

   and 
  persistently 
  applied, 
  to 
  exterminate 
  the 
  scale 
  on 
  any 
  place 
  where 
  it 
  

   has 
  had 
  a 
  few 
  years 
  to 
  establish 
  itself. 
  On 
  such 
  a 
  place 
  the 
  only 
  sure 
  

   remedy 
  is 
  the 
  ax 
  and 
  the 
  faggot, 
  applied 
  to 
  every 
  tree 
  and 
  shrub 
  on 
  

   which 
  the 
  scale 
  is 
  seen 
  to 
  have 
  made 
  a 
  lodgment, 
  supplemented 
  by 
  lib- 
  

   eral 
  spraying 
  of 
  all 
  vegetation 
  which 
  may 
  have 
  become 
  obscurely 
  in- 
  

   fested. 
  It 
  is 
  true 
  that 
  fumigation 
  with 
  hydrocyanic 
  acid 
  gas 
  has 
  occa- 
  

   sionally 
  been 
  recommended 
  as 
  efficient 
  for 
  the 
  extermination 
  of 
  the 
  

   scale 
  even 
  where 
  the 
  trees 
  are 
  completely 
  and 
  heavily 
  infested, 
  and 
  some 
  

   experiments 
  lately 
  published, 
  especially 
  in 
  a 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  San 
  Jose 
  

  

  *Now 
  nine. 
  

  

  f 
  Inspections 
  made 
  since 
  the 
  preparation 
  of 
  this 
  manuscript 
  show 
  that 
  the 
  San 
  

   Jose 
  scale 
  has 
  apparently 
  been 
  exterminated 
  at 
  Villa 
  Ridge 
  also 
  and 
  on 
  Mr.Winzeler's 
  

   place 
  near 
  Tremont. 
  At 
  both 
  places, 
  every 
  tree 
  upon 
  which 
  there 
  was 
  any 
  definite 
  

   reason 
  to 
  suppose 
  that 
  the 
  scale 
  was 
  finally 
  present, 
  was 
  cut 
  out 
  and 
  destroyed. 
  

  

  