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mon River in the Calamus Lake district, a few miles from Niantic, 

 in Macon county, reports having- come to me of an injury to elms 

 in this reg^ion apparently attributable to the canker-worm. As 

 soon as this forest came in sight, when still three miles away, 

 deadened spots could be seen in the woods where groups of elms 

 had been defoliated. In these places all except the youngest elms 

 had been completely stripped of their leaves, evidently by canker- 

 worms, of which a few indeed could still be found. The red-haw 

 i^Cni/icoiis) and the wild cherry were similarly injured, apparently 

 by the same insect. 



Several of the larger elms seemed to be dead, doubtless owing 

 to their defoliation for a year or more preceding-. Young- leaves 

 had started after the first crop had been eaten away, but had died 

 and dried up and were still lianging to the trees. The orchards in 

 this vicinity were also generally infested, and defoliated elms and 

 orchard trees were seen at intervals all along the way from Niantic 

 to Decatur, a distance of twelve miles. 



The preservation of these forest elms will call for measures 

 similar to those used at Jacksonville, but here the treatment may 

 be simplified by merely plastering- the printers' ink directly on the 

 tree either -with or without a smoothing of the surface by the 

 scraping away of the outer bark. These woodland trees being less 

 valuable than those in town, and the continued smearing of the 

 trunk being a matter of indifference, a careful process of banding-, 

 desirable in streets, would be unnecessary here. 



