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SAN JOSS COALS (A spidiotus t.err.iciosus Comst. ) 
Connecticut W. E. Britton: The San J se scale is found on nursery stock 
during the annual inspection of nurseries, and occasionally 
small orchard trees are found "badly infested with it. It is 
somewhat more prevalent than was the case four or five years 
ago, "but has not increased to any such alarming extent as I 
am led to believe is the case in Indiana and Illinois, and no 
special treatment is required for its control. Our orchardists 
spray either with a miscible oil or with lime-sulphur mixture, 
"but do not apply a dormant spray every season. . So far as our 
observation go, it has about the same status as it had a year 
ago. 
Rhode Island A. E. Stene : Our observations indicate that there are slightly 
greater numbers of these insects in some places but there is 
no general statewide . increase. We have received no complaints 
of damage from the scale from any section of the State, 
New York C. R. Crosby: In Columbia County the San Jose scale was present 
in some orchards but' was held in check by spraying. The scale 
Is found in many orchards in Dutchess County but as a rule it 
is. not serious. A few orchards show a rather severe infestation 
but these for the most part have been more or less neglected 
in the. past,, This insect has also been showing up on the fruit 
in some orchards this autumn. The San Jose scale has been 
quite well controlled by spraying, making it difficult to find 
in Erie County. In some neglected orchards scales are found 
on more than 50 per cent of the fruit and on several of the 
limbs. Some scale injury was found in many orchards. The 
percentage thrown out of A grade -vould be very small as the 
injury is serious in only three of the commercial orchards. In 
Monroe County the scale is present but only occasionally in 
serious quantities, while in Nassau County it is present but 
did not appear in large numbers. In Onondaga County the scale 
was not serious in sprayed orchards, and could easily be found 
. in unsprayed orchards, . Practically absent f^om all orchards in 
Ontario County that have received the recommended delayed 
dormant lime-sulphur spray. Even many neglected orchards are 
almost free of this scale. Therefore the assistant advised 
quite a number of good growers to reduce the strength of lime 
sulphur in the delayed dormant spray to 1-40. This was only 
advised, however, when the growers were familiar with the pest 
and had made a thorough examination of the orchard or when the 
assistant had made such examination. In Orleans County the scale 
is not common but a few can be found in sore orchards. In 
Wayne and Os-'-ego Counties the scale was only noted in quantity 
. in old neglected orchards. The young orchard found to be 
severely infested last year showed no evidence of the pest this 
year after a thorough application of 1-8 lime-sulphur in the 
delayed dormant the past two seasons. 
P. J. Parrott: The situation with respect to the San Jose 
scale is more favorable for the orchardists of this State than 
