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of this company, and in addition the infestation at Neavitt, Md.. is 
reported to be probably traceable to stock received from this source. 
In Maryland a nursery near Mullikin was infested to a limited extent, 
the scale having been introduced, presumably, upon Japan pear stock 
received direct from California. Another, near Frederick. Md.. was also 
slightly infested, the scale coming in on plums received from a nui - 
near Waycross, Gra. In both these Maryland nurseries the infested 
material has been completely stamped out, so far as can be determined 
by careful investigation. 
SUMMARY, BY STATES, OF DISTRIBUTION AND PRESENT CONDITION. 
The facts relating to the introduction and present distribution of the 
San Jose scale, by States, are as follows: 
ALABAMA . 
In April. 1895, Prof. J. W. Hoffman, of the department of biology 
of the Tn8kegee Institute. Tuskegee, Ala., sent us a branch of peach 
for inspection which proved to be, as he feared, infested with this San 
Jose scale. He shortly afterwards wrote an account of the scale for The 
Student, a local paper, issued April 20. LS9-J. in which he stated that 
the scale was introduced on some peach trees secured by the institu- 
tion from a nursery in Xew Jersey. He had strpposed at first that it 
was the ordinary scurfy scale. Ghionaspis furfurvs^ but on receiving the 
Department bulletin on the San Jose scale he gave the matter careful 
attention and recognized that the scale on his peach trees was the lat- 
ter insect. He afterwards submitted specimens to this office for exami- 
nation, and the correctness of his identification was confirmed as above 
noted. 
ARIZONA. 
Prof. J. W. Tourney, of the University of Arizona, at Tucson, reports 
the San Jose scale on apple, pear, peach, and apricot. How widely 
this scale insect is disseminated through Arizona is not known, but 
probably rather generally. He states (Bulletin 14, Arizona Experiment 
Station, June, 189o) that it has •• doubtless been present in some of the 
older orchards of the Salt River Valley for at least ten years, where 
it was brought on fruit trees imported from California. * * * 
During the past year a number of the orchards of the Territory have 
suffered from the effects of this scale." lb- -ays further that the scale 
seems to be confined to the Salt River Valley, and mentions that no 
source of infestation is known outside of material coming from Cali- 
fornia. Xone of the State nurseries are known to harbor the pest. In 
Arizona the infested orchards arc net numerous and the scale docs not 
spread rapidly. In young orchards it is usually confined to the original 
trees, but in older orchards, where the limbs arc more or less interlaced. 
entire orchards are in sonic oases badly infested. 
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