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At Neavitt, Md., a 10-acre orchard of peach trees was badly 

 infested — nearly every tree was languishing from the attack. 

 Many had been taken up and destroyed. Full directions were given 

 for spraying, and the success of the operations will be watched. 

 The source of this infestation could not be definitely ascertained, 

 but it was thought by the owner that the first affected trees had 

 come from a Missouri nurseryman — not from New Jersey. 



Chestertown, Md., showed but few infested trees. They had 

 been treated by the owner with thick whale-oil soap of the consist- 

 ency of molasses, with every prospect of extermination of the scale. 

 The infested trees had been received from New Jersey in 1890. 

 As a summary of the above, Mr. Howard states that the scale had 

 been exterminated (in 1894) in Indiana and Virginia, and the 

 probabilities were strong of a like result before the close of the year, 

 at the other localities named, except in Florida and New Jersey. 



It has since come to the knowledge of the Division of Entomol- 

 ogy, that the scale has been found abundantly in three new locali- 

 ties in Maryland. It has also been discovered in a locality in 

 Southern Georgia ; in an orchard in Southern Ohio ; in Newcastle 

 Co., Md. ; in Jefferson Co., Indiana; at City Point, Va. ; and at 

 Bristol, Pa. In some of these localities the infestation was quite 

 limited, and it is believed to have been exterminated. (L. O. 

 Howard : Further Notes on the San Jose Scale, in Insect Life, vii, 

 1895, pp. 285, 286.) 



The San Jose Scale in New York 



During the meeting of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, at Brooklyn, N. Y., in August last — in a paper 

 read by Dr. Smith before the Association of Economic Entomolo- 

 gists on " The San Jose Scale in New Jersey," it was incidentally 

 stated that an orchard in Columbia County, New York, was known 

 to be badly infested with the scale. The particular orchard was 

 not named, but later, at my request, the information was obtained 

 from Dr. Smith, that Mr. L. L. Morrell of Kinderhook, had not 

 long ago purchased a number of young apple trees (Ben Davis 

 variety) from one of the New Jersey nurseries. Two years later 

 (in 1894), on examination of these trees by one of the owners of 

 the nursery (a relative of Mr. Morrell), they were found to be badly 



