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clothes moths and the Buffalo beetle, by roaches, ants and other 

 insects, while grain dealers and merchants handling cereals find 

 these substances often seriously infested by insects which render 

 them unsaleable. 



The proper methods of treatment for different injurious insects 

 vary with the insect, the plant or other object attacked, and often 

 with the local conditions where the injury occurs. 



The San Jose Scale. 



The appearance of the San Jose scale in Massachusetts is a 

 serious matter both to fruit growers and to nurserymen. This 

 pest which has caused the entire destruction of hundreds of acres 

 of fruit trees where it has become abundant, threatens the destruc- 

 tion of all the fruit trees of the Commonwealth if no restraint 

 be placed upon it. This restraint is obtained by inspection and 

 the destruction or other treatment of infested trees to save those 

 which have thus far escaped, and it is for the best interests of 

 every one who suspects the presence of the scale to have an 

 inspection made at once. The Experiment Station 1ms made 

 arrangements to provide a competent inspector for this work whose 

 services may be obtained by any one who desires his stock ex- 

 amined, upon payment of the actual expenses involved by the 

 trip, and who is empowered to issue certificates of inspection 

 which are accepted by other states having inspection laws when 

 plants are carried from Massachusetts into those states. 



HOW TO PREVENT LOSS. 



It is the desire of the Experiment Station to aid every person 

 in the Commonwealth who may need such assistance — to be of 

 the greatest possible service in every way. And as this assistance 

 is without cost, no one who incurs loss by insect ravages can 

 excuse himself for that loss except on the ground of ignorance 

 that such assistance could be obtained. 



To every resident of this Commonwealth the Entomological 

 Division of the Hatch Experiment Station offers its services, and 

 to obtain its assistance a letter of inquiry, with samples of the 

 injury and if possible of the insect causing it, addressed to the 

 Entomologist, Hatch Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass., is all 

 that is necessary to obtain advice as to the proper treatment to 

 pursue. 



