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Show SAN JOSE SCALE SPREADING Principal Commercial Apple Orchards tf Entire Country Menaced by Pettlftrout Instot. Washington. The principal com merclnl apple orchard! of the country are destined to become Infested with the Han Jose scale, according to a bulletin bul-letin entitled "Kumlgatlon of Applet for the Kan Jose Hrale," Just published pub-lished by the department of agriculture. agricul-ture. The arnlo Is spreading rapidly over vast areas each year. Although there are numerous orchards orch-ards nut affected In the western and oastern stales, where the disease Is well-eslabllahed, there Is no doubt, according ac-cording to the bulletin, that these soon will be visited by the scale. It Is regarded as a certainly tbat there will be a spread of It west of the Mississippi. Mis-sissippi. Tho bulletin treats of the fumigation fumiga-tion of the trees and fruit and contains con-tains a statement that "a little carelessness care-lessness In spraying, the use of Improper Im-proper solutions or unfa vol sLIe weather conditions at the time of making applications may allow the survival of tho scale In sufficient numbers num-bers to result, later In the season, in their settling in considerable numbers num-bers upon the fruit." |