THE REMEDY. 
Tt has been determined and demonstrated that if the larger part 
of the infestation within an area of 8 or 10 square miles is disposed 
of according to the methods discovered and recommended by the 
experts of the Bureau of Entomology, it will bring the beetle under 
complete control in that area, and that thereafter control can be 
maintained with but slight trouble or expense. It is, therefore, 
evident that if the recommended methods are adopted and properly 
carried out the beetle can be controlled in any given community, 
district, county, State, or the entire South. 
THE METHOD OF CONTROL. 
Broadly stated, the method of control is to locate the infested 
trees during November, December, January, February, and March, and 
Fig. 4.—Map showing distribution of the southern pine beetle. (Author’s illustration.) 
destroy the overwintering broods in the bark of the main trunks, 
according to the recommendations on pages 13 and 14 of this bulletin. 
THE COST OF CONTROL. 
Experience has shown that while a large amount of timber may 
be dead in a given locality, it may be an accumulation of several 
years or months through the continued dying of the trees, so that 
only a comparatively few infested trees are found at any given time. 
Therefore, if this small number of dying and infested trees is dis- 
posed of at the proper time and in the proper manner, the cause 
will be removed at small cost and the dying of the pines will stop. 
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