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"(2.) In cases of long standing and wide extent the 

 affected stock should be cut back severely and treated 

 with winter soap wash; stock badly incrusted with scale 

 should be cut out at once and burned. The lessening 

 of the vitality, together with the poisoning of the sap- 

 wood already affect- 

 ed by the scale in 

 such cases, will usu- 

 ally prevent the 

 plant fro in ever 

 again be c o m i n g 

 healthy, and gene- 

 rally it is beyond 

 help. We wish par- 

 ticularly to impress 

 upon the minds of 

 fiu it growers that as 

 soon as this insect is 

 found to occur in an 

 orchard the m os t 

 strenuous measures 

 must be taken to 

 stamp it out. No 

 half-way steps will 

 suffice. The individ- 



T .. ro c , T , .. , t, i ual must remember 



Fig. 52— San Jose Scale, a, Pear, mod- 

 erately infested, natural size, b, Female that not only are his 

 scale, enlarged. Howard, Div. Ent. U. S. own interests vitally 

 Dept. Agri. Cir. 3. at stak ^ but those of 



the entire community in which he resides. lie may think 

 that he cannot bear the loss, but the loss in consequence of 

 the slightest neglect will be much greater. The fact, too, 

 that there is a community of interests among fruit glow- 

 ers in this matter must not be lost sight of. Fruit growers 

 must be mutually helpful in an emergency like this. 



