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taken at his expense. He deserves much credit for the energetic way 
in which he attacked the difficulty, and it may be safely said that the 
orchard is at present practically innocuous as a center of dissemination, 
and that the insect will be completely stamped out by the close of the 
year. 
During March further specimens of the San Jose scale were received 
from De Funiak Springs. Fla., through the entomologist to the Florida 
experiment statim). Mr. P. H. Rolfs. Information concerning remedial 
measures was immediately sent both to the director of the station, 
Prof. O. Clute. and to the Fruit Growers' Association, Mr. G. W. Mel- 
lish, secretary, at De Funiak Springs. Recognizing the fact that this 
outbreak could probably be handled by the State experiment station, 
in cooperation with the Frnit Growers' Association, the Department 
was loatli to undertake any other than advisory functions, and both 
organizations were so informed. The entomologist to the station, Prof. 
Rolfs, was sent by the director, Prof. Clute, to De funiak Springs, 
and prepared a resin wash, which was used with some effect. The most 
badly infested trees in certain orchards were burned. In the mean- 
time the fruit-growers, alarmed by the finding of the insect over a much 
larger area than was at first suspected, petitioned the Department of 
Agriculture at Washington to send an expert to the spot, to assist and 
advise with Prof. Rolfs. As one of my assistants, Mr. H. G. Hubbard, 
was at the time in Florida, conducting investigations upon the insects 
affecting the orange, he was instructed to proceed to Walton County 
and report the results of his examination. From a report which Mr. 
Hubbard submitted July 4, it appears that the scales are practically 
confined to the peach and plum, occurring, however, in small numbers 
upon Kieffer pears and also upon pecan and persimmon. The prevalence 
of persimmon shoots through theorchards constitutes a serious difficulty 
in clearing orchards of the scale, as they form thickets in waste places 
and fence corners, providing lurking places from which the pest will 
spread again to the peach trees. Mr. Rolfs had visited the locality and 
taken copious notes as to the extent of territory infested. According 
to Mr. Hubbard, he found many thousands of trees infested, and nearly 
every orchard within a radius of five or six miles more or less attacked. 
The efforts which had been made to keep it down were desultory and 
ineffectual. After an examination of the effect of the resin wash, which 
had been applied in varying proportions, even at the rate of equal parts 
of water and resin wash, many living scales were found in all cases. 
Mr. Hubbard recommended the standard kerosene emulsion, 1 to 9, 
and visited one grove where this was said to have been used in the 
course of spraying. He found it had been very effective, quite as much 
so as in the case of the purple scale on orange. A second application, 
however, had not been made during the month of June, and the scale was 
again increasing. It was further learned that the experiment station 
had arranged that Prof. Rolfs should go to De Funiak Springs with an 
