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the country and are doing good work in keeping down the fly. 

 However, we must assist the parasites and instead of collecting 

 fallen fruit and burning it and in that way not only destroying 

 the maggots which are in the fruit, but with them also the grubs 

 of the parasites contained in those maggots, it is best to collect 

 all this fruit and pile it in a shady, out-of-the-way place under 

 some bush. The fruit will decay and the maggots will crawl into 

 the ground and a good per cent will furnish a new supply of 

 parasites. Wherever this has been done a marked improvement 

 has been noted. A little assistance in this way will insure the pro- 

 tection to the parasite in the future. We have reared parasites 

 from many fruits gathered at different times and know that the 

 parasites are present, so that with the assistance above noted, a 

 marked increase in parasitism will result and better fruit will be 

 produced. 



Currant and gooseberry bushes, which grow in all parts of the 

 United States, are the host plants for the fungus of the white pine 

 blister, and from these plants the disease spreads to the pines. 

 The department of agriculture announces that a federal and state 

 campaign is being waged against the further spread of this pest, 

 which has already gained a foothold in the eastern states. 



Of two large shipments of lambs from the Wyoming national 

 forest, one averaged eighty and the other eighty-four pounds per 

 head on the scales at Omaha. The average weight of 50,000 head 

 of April and May lambs from the Madison forest in Montana, 

 after being shrunk for twelve hours, was 75.7 pounds each. 

 From a band of 900 ewes grazed on the Beaverhead Forest, 

 Montana, the owner raised and shipped 880 lambs which aver- 

 aged 97 pounds per head after being driven fifty-five miles to the 

 shipping point. 



