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The distribution of this motb about Boston was discussed by Mr. 

 Kirkland. 



Before the session adjourned, on motion of Mr. Howard, a nomi- 

 nating committee was appointed by the president, consisting of Messrs. 

 Howard, Weed, and Fernald. 



AFTERNOON SESSION, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1898. 



The programme committee had associated for the afternoon a series 

 of papers relating more particularly to scale insects. The first was 

 presented by Mr. Smith, as follows : 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SAN JOSE OR PERNICIOUS SCALE IN 



NEW JERSEY. 



By John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N J. 



We have more, and at the same time less, San Jose or pernicious 

 scale than ever before in our State.' New Jersey is credited with hav- 

 ing distributed this species throughout the Eastern United States, and 

 to a large extent this is probably so. Yet, on the other hand, New 

 Jersey has received from other States a considerable amount of infested 

 stock, which it has been very difficult to locate, so that honors are tol- 

 erably even. 



When I say that we have less scale than ever before, it means that in 

 districts where the scale has been known to exist in years past ener- 

 getic efforts have been made to stamp it out, in most cases with good 

 success, and there is not now one badly infested orchard or one that 

 has been badly infested which is not in much better condition than at 

 any time since the infestation was discovered. 



When I say that we have more than ever before, it means that a num- 

 ber of new scaly orchards have been discovered, or new localities into 

 which the scale was introduced from points other than our own 

 nurseries. 



I wish here to claim for at least one of the New Jersey nurseries that 

 unintentionally distributed the scale the credit of doing all in its power 

 to enable infested points to be discovered ; for the Parry Brothers have 

 always furnished, on request, complete lists of all their customers in the 

 States from which the requests came; and lately the Lovett Nursery 

 has found that this was the best policy for them as well. I can not say 

 that my requests to nurseries in other States who have sent scale into 

 New Jersey have been equally well treated. 



I have in the past called attention to the fact that the line formed by 

 the red shale in New Jersey was in a way a boundary which limited 

 the distribution of the scale, and have also detailed experiments which 

 seem to indicate that the shale itself had little or nothing to do with 

 their development — that is, it was not the character of the soil which 



