22 THE SAX JOSE OR CHINESE SCALE. 
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
The occurrence of the San Jose scale in the District is reported in 
Bulletin 12, and it is now pretty generally distributed on fruit trees 
in the city of Washington and its suburbs. 
FLORIDA. 
The occurrence of the San Jose scale in Florida was brought to our 
attention in March. 1894, as recorded in Bulletin 3, and additional 
localities soon followed. Mr. E. W. Berger, assistant entomologist 
of the State experiment station, reports that the present distribution 
is extensive, the scale occurring in some twenty-odd counties, or 
wherever peaches are grown. 
GEORGIA. 
The early records of Georgia infestation beginning in 1894 are 
given in Bulletins 3 and 12. The San Jose scale in 1894 had a pretty 
strong foothold in this State. The recent conditions in Georgia are 
indicated on a map prepared hy Mr. Newell and published in the pro- 
ceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Georgia State 
Horticultural Society, in 1904. This map indicates very general 
infestation thruout the State, including most of the counties where 
fruit growing is of any importance. Prof. Hugh N. Starnes, in a 
letter transmitting this report, states that the large increase indicated 
on this map does not mean that infestation is still progressing, but 
merely that it has been more definitely located and the present State 
laws looking to the control of this pest are ample in their provisions and 
are being rigorously enforced. Mr. Newell reports in this connection 
that during 1904 out of a total of 218 nurseries inspected, only 9 were 
found infested, and that this is a very considerable reduction from the 
percentage of infestation shown by records of previous years. 
IDAHO. 
The infestation in this State is directly from western sources and is 
of long standing, at least in the limited area about Lewiston, where 
the oldest orchards are located. Mr. L. F. Henderson, the entomolo- 
gist of the State experiment station, reports on the present situation 
under date of May 29 as follows: 
The scale is very prevalent along the lower river bottoms, such as Lewiston on 
Clearwater, Juliaetta and Kendrick on Potlatch River (a tributary to Clearwater), 
up and down the Snake at Weiser, Payette, Caldwell, Nampa, as far as < rleniis Ferry, 
possibly farther. Its eastern limit seems about Mountain Home, as I do not know of 
it at Shoshone. It does [not?] exist on the upper Snake, as Blackfoot, nor in the 
extr< -me southeast, as Montpelier. The elevation of this district seems too high for it. 
as it varies from 4,000 to 7,000 feet altitude. The altitude seems also too high about 
