The San Jose Scale

The San José scale, which has ruined thuusaiids of fruit orohards m this country, has this season made its first appearance in Michigan and the fruit growers in this neighborhood are oorrespondiugly alarmed at the prospect that it may at any moment attack their orohards. There is only one way of eradioating the evil and that is by keeping the closest possible watch ou the trees and if one is discovered to be infected to burn it np root and braoch. Every fruit grower who has to pnt out uursery stock tbis spring should i ine the stock he receives froni the nurseries with the greatest possible care as soon as it is received and if auy sign of the soale is apparent do not plant any of it. J. J. Parshall, one of our veteran fruit growers, bas received from the Catawba Island Fruit Co., of Catawba Islaud, Ohio, some pieces of branches of frnit trees infected witb the soale iu its different stages of development and he will be pleased to have auybody interested in the subject oall on birn and examine the branches and familiarizo themselves with the appearance of the disease eo that they can ward off the approaching danger. He also received the following letter with the specimens: "Catawba Island, O., March 13, 1897. "J. J. Parshall, "Ann Arbor, Mich. : "Dear Sir, - Yours of llth received, and I comply with your request, only I send more thau '3 or 4.' Tbis is a 'bad dose' on us and we are quite sure they carne to us on some pear trees I purchased in Dayton, ü. , in 1889, and probably the trees came from New Jersey, as yon mention. I have taken out and burned about (300 peachs, 500 pear and 200 quince, also my pretty orange hedge (out to the ground) of aboot G5 rods in leng-th. Then have cut back severely the balauoe of my pear trees, plntü.and about 1,000 peach and sprayed with coal oil. Then I am to spray the balance of my orchard (about 8,000 trees) with ' Whale Oil Soap.' Have just purchased $205.61 worth of it. Had ten barrels coal oil. The soap will not damage our trees, but are afraid the coal oil bas, will know later. "You probably have read a f oil description of the scale, so I willnot attempt it. We will try our best to eradioate it. Onr fruit is also killed. "Yours very truly, "D. A. HADDEN. "P. S. - If you take a pin and raise np these scales, yon can see with your glass that tbey are yellow underneath. The smal], black ones are the youug and the light colored the older ones. They had killed the tree from which I cut the three older pieces."