Excerpt from 13th Report of State Entomologist on Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New York, 1897

The number received from correspondents, accompanied usually with inquiries of their name or means of control, was about 350, from 52 individuals.

The correspondence of the Office has not varied materially from that reported in preceding years. The record of letters sent is 12 3 5. Of all those to which reference might be desirable hereafter, copies have been retained, and placed on file. The letters received, indorsed, and filed, during the year are 910 in number.

The year has not been marked by any Wide-spread insects ravages in the state Of New York, or by the introduction of any formidable insect pest from abroad. The army-worm, in accordance with its accustomed limitation of serious injury to a single year, did not again make its appearance in formidable number. The San José scale is not spreading rapidly over the portions of the state liable to its introduction. New localities for it not hitherto reported, are Niagara, Ontario county; Farmer, Seneca county; and Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson river. Apparently, conditions have not been favorable for its spread, and it is very encouraging to state that in the examinations of 35 western nurseries by my assistant, Dr E. P. Felt, in not a single instance was the pest discovered. In none of the localities in the state Where it has been detected, with the exception of Long Island, has the scale spread to any serious extent, and in most of them it is believed to have been exter minated. In view Of the grave apprehensions that had been entertained of the destructiveness and stubborn character of this pest, it is very gratifying to have received the recent announcement by Dr J. B. Smith, entomologist of the New Jersey agricultural experiment station, that it can be exterminated by spraying the infested trees With pure kerosene during the Winter after Jan. I and again in July, and in the following summer should it prove necessary.

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