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Upper Dam was beiiiit;- conducted by Messrs. RcMiolds and Jensen with- 

 out discovering; further infestation. This survey was conducted to 

 and below Franconia. Later Mr. Harry liarteh had charge of this 

 camp, and did most effective work, outlinin;.; with accurac\'. we beHeve, 

 the boundaries of the infested area and superxisin^' the eradication. 

 Meanwhile. Mr. .\la\nard H. Coe, another employee of the State Ento- 

 mologist having finished the work of supervising the destruction of 

 stock and inspection, of Nursery B, started a survey of the St. Croix 

 below Stillwater as far up as hVanconia. Thus, a complete survev of 

 tlie .Minnesnta side was made from a point below Stillwater to Taylors 





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I'lg. 4. Work of eradication. The four men in the background are equidistant 

 from each other, each man ranging slightly behind the man on his right, 

 and the right hand man following the (blazed) line. The party in the 

 rear is checking up the work. liartelt photo. 



[•"alls, and twelve miles above. Mr. Coe was later joined by Mr. 

 Salmon, a temporary assistant of the C. S. Bureau of Plant Industrv, 

 and these men on September 25th discovered quite a large infested area 

 at I'ine Hollow Creek (in region known as Cedar I'dbit), three 

 miles l)el( )W ( )sce(ila. 



( )n Septem])er 5th your cnmmittee voted to allow the State 

 Entomologist $300.00 additional upon his re]:)resentation that further 

 expense was necessary in order to eradicate all infested Ribes l)efore 

 frost. Had it not lieen for your cordial co-o])eration in this way, both 

 on June 20th and September 5th, we would have been unable for 

 hnancial reasons to co-operate efTecti\ely in this survey and eradica- 

 tion work. 



