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fungus disease, Sphcvr ostilbe coccophila, with which he has been artifi- 
cally experimenting, and of which he seems to have great hopes. 
Georgia. — The four localities mentioned in Bulletin No. 3 have been 
greatly enlarged by the active inspection work of Professor Starnes, 
of the State experiment station, who now finds twenty-four infested 
counties in Georgia, all of which he has mapped being in the southern 
part of the State. The fungus disease referred to in the preceding 
paragraph has very recently (late in the fall of 1897) made its appear- 
ance in a peach orchard in Jefferson County, southwest of Augusta, 
and is reported to have exterminated the scale. 
Idaho. — Nothing new is to be reported from this State. The insect 
occurs in several localities in the vicinity of Snake River Yalley, and 
farther north in the vicinity of Lewiston. 
Illinois. — The scale was not known to exist in this State in Novem- 
ber, 1895, but Professor Forbes, by virtue of special appropriations, has 
been able to have the State rather carefully inspected, and has found 
twenty-two colonies in nineteen different localities situated in eleven 
counties in the State. 
Indiana. — Aside from the two localities mentioned in Bulletin 3, Pro- 
fessor Troop, the horticulturist of the Indiana State Experiment Station, 
has found it during the summer of 1897 in five additional localities in 
Clark, Jefferson, and Miami counties, many orchards being very badly 
infested, some having been cut down and burned. 
Kentucky. — We learn from Professor Garman that careful inspection 
of all the nurseries in the State showed, in the summer of 1897, no 
traces of the scale. Only one locality in the State is known to him, aud 
that is an orchard in Grayson County. 
Louisiana. — So far as can be learned, no careful investigation has 
ever been made of orchards in this State, although, as was pointed out 
in Bulletin No. 3, stock presumably infested was sold somewhat exten- 
sively throughout the State by a dealer in New Orleans. 
Maryland. — More actual damage seems to have been done in this State 
than in almost any other. Professor Johnson has, since his appoint- 
ment, investigated every county in the State, inspected all the nurseries 
and many of the orchards. He has located the scale in sixteen out of 
twenty-three counties, representing forty- three different localities and 
seventy-four different orchards, in which are growing over a million and 
a half bearing trees. It may be stated, incidentally, that the writer's 
main source of information is the receipt of specimens from fruit grow- 
ers themselves, and that, in spite of the general agitation of the San 
Jose scale question, specimens have been received at this office from 
but sixteen localities in the State of Maryland. This illustrates the 
advantage of inspection by a State official. 
Massachusetts. — The writer learns on the authority of Professor Fer- 
nald that from his correspondence the San Jose scale occurs in Worces- 
ter, Scituate, Roslindale, Bedford, Brookline,Cambridge, Salem,Reading, 
