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October. They also recommended that the compensation for trees destroyed be increased, 

 the owner being allowed twenty-five per cent, of the value including the crop and that he 

 be represented in some way at the valuation. They also recommended that the utmoat care 

 be taken to prevent the spread of the scale and that a circular of instructions be prepared 

 and sent to every orchardist in the infested areas and that every owner of an orchard in 

 the Province be encouraged to make a careful inspection of his orchard next winter to 

 discover whether or not there is any San Jose Scale in it. 



In the United States the work in connection with the San Jose' Scale has been 

 largely carried on by the Agricultural Experiment Stations, but the proposed law govern- 

 ing interstate commerce in nursery stock failed to pass the American Congress. An 

 important series of investigations, however, was carried out last autumn at Washington 

 for the purpose of determining whether it is possible for the scale to remain alive upon 

 any fruit dried by any of the methods in use in the United States. This work was 

 aimed especially at the German regulations prohibiting the introduction of American 

 dried fruit into that country. The results of that work as published in Bulletin No. 1 8, 

 New Series, were very satisfactory as it was fully established that any one of the com- 

 mercial drying processes is absolute death to the scale insect. 



Mr. Marlatt has undertaken a systematic study of the armoured scales (Diaspinse) 

 and haS cleared up many doubtful points of synonymy, the most interesting point, per- 

 haps, which he has brought out being the occurrence of the European Aspidiotus Ostrese- 

 formis in the United States where it has existed unrecognized for several years, although 

 late correspondence shows that it is already distributed from New York to the Mississippi 

 River and even to Idaho. 



Dr. Howard has had a careful study of the insects injurious to the forest trees of the 

 extreme north western states carried on by Dr. A. D. Hopkins who was employed as a 

 temporary field agent for that purpose. He made a careful study of forest conditions in 

 Northern California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho and found very many new Scoly- 

 tidae and has been able to make practical suggestions which will be of value to the lum- 

 bermen in that region. This work should also be of value to our lumbermen in British 

 Columbia and the information obtained should certainly be made available to them. 



Further work on the study of insects liable to be introduced from abroad has been 

 carried on by Dr. Howard and his assistants. One of the latter was sent to Porto Rico 

 in the spring and made large collections of the injurious insects of that island and further 

 observations are being made. Dr. Howard has been accumulating a large collection of 

 injurious insects of first-class importance from different parts of the world, especially 

 Australia, Japan, Mauritius and Reunion, while the collection of European injurious 

 insects has been greatly added to. The importance of this line of work was strikingly 

 illustrated in an instance which occured in the spring of this year, when an insect boring 

 in the stems of orange received in California from Japan was at once recognized by a 

 comparison with the specimen received some time ago from that country, the habits of 

 which had been previously reported upon. 



Late advices show that the importation of Novius Oardinalis into Portugal, which 

 were sent by the Washington office through the courtesy of the State Board of Horticul- 

 ture of California, was fully as successful as anticipated and all danger from Icerya in the 

 extensive orange groves along the River Tagus is now considered a thing of the past. 



Mr. Chittenden has been working mainly on garden and orchard insects and has pub- 

 lished his results in Bulletin No 19, New Series, a pamphlet of 99 pages replete with 

 most interesting information. 



The usual Western field work on injurious grasshoppers has been carried on and it 

 is claimed that Mr. Hunter, the temporary field agent, has set at rest all rumors in regard 

 to the Turtle Mountains region in North Dakota and Manitoba as a possible permanent 

 breeding ground of Melanoplus Spretus, and it is charged that the occasional swarms 

 which have settled in Dakota and Minnesota have come from the region of the Assini- 

 boine River. 



