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A FEW INSECT ENEMIES OF THE ORCHARD. 
These insects are scattered for t^ie most part by being car- 
ried upon nursery stock or grafts, or even upon fruit, from place 
to place. They are also carried by winds and are undoubtedly 
carried long distances in many cases upon the feet of birds. 
A FEW SCALE LICE FOUND OR REPORTED IN 
COLORADO. 
THE SAN .TOSE SCALE (Aspidiotus perniciosus). 
This, the most destructive of all the scale lice that infest 
deciduous fruit trees, has been reported on a few occasions in 
Figure II. — Piece of bark covered with San Jose scale, greatly 
magnified. (From United States Department of Agriculture. Di- 
vision of Entomology, copied.) 
Colorado, but I wish to assure the readers of this article that 
none of these reports have been corroborated. The recent re- 
ports of this scale in Mesa county were all a mistake, the scale 
in question being Putnam’s scale, which is mentioned below. 
