SUMMARY OF DISTRIBUTION AND PRESENT CONDITION. 
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so general in most of the States where the San Jose scale has occurred 
for a number of years that it is impracticable to indicate the different 
points of infestation, and even in the States worst infested many 
orchards are free from the scale; but if an attempt was made to graph- 
ically picture the distribution on a map, the points of infestation 
would be so numerous as to give the appearance of absolutely complete 
infestation. The publications cited may be referred to, therefore, 
for the more detailed and complete records. A mere statement of the 
present general status of the San Jose scale in the several States in 
which it occurs will now be given. This statement is based on replies 
to a circular letter of inquhy sent to State entomologists and experi- 
ment station officers in May of this }'ear. 
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Fig. 1.— Map of the United States, showing localities known to have been infested with the San»Jose 
scale up to 1896. (Original. ) 
It is interesting for comparison to reproduce the map (fig. 1) show- 
ing the known distribution at the time of the publication of Bulletin 3 
in 1896, when the scale was reported in only 20 States and in compara- 
tively few localities in each, with the single exception of New Jersey, 
which had been most energeticall}" inspected by Dr. John B. Smith 
and found to be very generally infested. Bulletin 12 records the scale 
occurring in 33 States and also in the District of Columbia and Canada, 
and in very many new localities in all of the States previously recorded 
as harboring the scale. The number of actual records of the. San 
Jose scale now available are many hundredfold what they were at the 
time of the publication of Bulletin 12 at the beginning of the year 
1898. 
There are still a few States in which the San Jose scale does not 
now occur or has not been reported, namely, Colorado, Maine, Minne- 
