2 4 THE SAX JOSE OR CHINESE SCALE. 
KANSAS. 
Kansas has long* belonged to a group of middle western States free 
from the San Jose scale. During the present year, however, this scale 
insect has been sent to us for determination from Dodge City on apple 
twigs, which is the first and only record so far for this State, on the 
authority of Prof. E. A. Popenoe, entomologist of the State experi- 
ment station. A general examination of the orchards of the State has 
been begun, however, and additional records will probably be dis- 
covered. 
KENTUCKY. 
But one record of the San Jose scale was known in Kentucky at the 
time of the publication of Bulletin 12. Professor Garman, State ento- 
mologist, now reports that the scale is still not generally distributed 
in the State, and the credit for this he believes is due to the prompt 
institution of nursery inspection shortly after the San Jose scale came 
into prominence in the East. Within the past four or live years, how- 
ever, he reports an increase in the number of infested localities, par- 
ticularly in northern counties, and is inclined to believe that in some 
cases the stock condemned on the other side of the river is brought 
over and distributed on the Kentucky side. The infestation is con- 
fined to the river counties and some half a dozen interior counties, all 
lying rather above the median line of the State. 
LOUISIANA. 
The early records of infestation in Louisiana are given in detail in 
Bulletin 3, and the scale is supposed to date in this State from about 
1891, as there recorded. The present situation as given by Mr. 
Wilmon Newell, the entomologist of the State experiment stations, 
indicates 12 distinct localities of occurrence, ranging from the north- 
ern line of the State to New Orleans. These points are widely sepa- 
rated, and the State is comparatively free from the scale. Mr. Newell 
states that no very thoro inspection of all the orchard sections of 
the State has been made, but that from the work already done he 
believes that not over 5 per cent of the orchards, at the outside, are 
infested. But one small nursery is known to be infested, and the 
owner of this nursery is not permitted to place his stock on the market. 
MAINE. 
The San Jose scale has never been reported from Maine, and this is 
confirmed in a recent letter from Miss Edith M. Patch, tin 1 entomolo- 
gist of the State experiment station. 
