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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
necessaries of life, not only upon the immediate neighbor¬ 
hood but upon the county at large. 
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Fig. 11. 
The storage and packing cellar of Jackson & Perkins Co., 
showing crane for moving heavy boxes. 
There are at present 
over one hundred head 
of cattle and two hund¬ 
red and fifty hogs being 
fed in the firms’ com¬ 
modious barns. Roots 
are grown and ensilage 
is made in large quanti¬ 
ties. These are supple¬ 
mented by concentrated 
food, and the cattle are 
fed somewhat after the 
western fashion, in open 
sheds where the manure 
can be readily collected 
and saved. 
In addition to carry¬ 
ing on their own special 
lines of business, this 
firm also acts as Ameri¬ 
can representatives of 
Charles Detriche of Ang¬ 
ers, France, who is an extensive grower of fruit stocks and and this may in part account for the destruction of the lady 
Fig 11. 
The fertilizer factory and some of the workers on the 
Jackson & Perkins Co. farm. 
THE ASIATIC LADY BIRD BEETLE. 
(Chilocorus similis.) 
BY WILMON NEWELL, STATE ENTOMOLOGIST OF GEORGIA. 
During 1902 and 1903 considerable interest was 
manifested throughout the state in the introduction of 
the Asiatic Lady Bug, an imported insect from northern 
China, which feeds upon the San Jose scale. The first 
specimens of this insect were introduced into an orchard 
at Marshallville, in August 1902 by Professor W. M. 
Scott, and for a time they seemed to thrive and do 
well. During 1903 their increase was rapid, until in 
the latter part of the season it was possible to find as 
many as 200 of the insects to a tree, and a rough cal¬ 
culation showed that 
they had destroyed from 
50 to 60 % of the scale. 
At this time the insects 
were distributed to a 
number of other points 
in Georgia and new col¬ 
onies started under 
what were thought to be 
favorable conditions. 
The past winter was a 
severe one and was evi¬ 
dently too much for the 
beetles. In the orchard 
at Marshallville where 
they were so abundant 
last year, examinations 
this summer have failed 
to reveal a single indi¬ 
vidual. This orchard 
was, however, sprayed 
during the winter with 
the lime-sulphur wash 
ornamental trees and shrubs. 
THE PERSONNEL OF THE FIRM. 
Mr. C. H. Perkins, senior member of the firm, is fortunate in 
having a worthy ally and successor in his son, G. C., who car¬ 
ries a large share of the responsibility of managing the correspondence 
and office end of the business. In this regard there is a striking similar¬ 
ity between the two important nursery firms of Newark. C. W. Stuart 
will in all probability be succeeded by his active and aggressive son, while 
the same thing is occuring in the case of Jackson & Perkins. 
It should be added that, occupying the same office building, is th 
firm of C. H. Perkins Co., of which Mr.C. H. Perkins, the senior member 
of the Jackson & Perkins Co. is also the prime mover, seconded by 
another son. This firm handles the output of six or seven large canning 
factories, located in various parts of the state. At the Newark factory, 
which is one of the largest, Jackson & Perkins have erected three large 
silos which are annually filled with by-products of the factory, such 
as pea straw, corn husks, etc., and are again used to great advantage 
in the stock feeding work of the firm. 
bugs by the poisoning of their food supply. During the past 
month the writer has visited several of the points where these 
lady bugs were established and in no case are they abundant 
at present. In several cases they have entirely disappeared. 
Thus do certain sections enlivened by the'presence of broadminded 
and aggressive men dispense comfort in the form of the aesthetics and 
Fig. 12. More workers’!in the fertilizer factoryYf 
Jackson & Perkins Co. 
