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over, under control, to safeguard bordering forest plantations. Control furrows 

 were also plowed along all travelled roads, and the long grass back fired. 



Insects 



A minor attack of Ips pint occurred this year in plantation No. 37. 

 Eighty-three Red Pine and twenty-one Jack Pine trees that were severely 

 attacked were dug up and burned. All litter about the base of these trees 

 was raked up and also burned. No additional outbreaks have been observed. 



Six Red Pine and one Scotch Pine received the same treatment as above. 

 These dead trees found in plantation No. 23 did not show evidence of insect 

 action, but following the practice of previous years, all sickly and dead trees 

 are eliminated regardless of the cause. 



Two dead trees of Scotch Pine in plantation No. 36 were also removed 

 and burned. 



Damage from White Pine Weevil, Pissodes strobi, was fifty per cent less 

 than that of 1932. Weevil injury has been consistently decreasing since 1930 

 proving that control is possible and practical. 



COMPARATIVE RECORD OF WEEVIL CONTROL AT STATION No. 1 

 Number of Leaders Removed 



Ribes eradication in connection with the control of White Pine Blister 

 Rust was continued at Station No. 1. 



Commencing this work on August 18th, three men inspected Ungers' 

 woods, the MacLaren Woodlot, and the creek flats on the Forestry Station. 

 With the available number of men it was not possible to make a complete 

 survey of the usual areas where members of the family Ribes persist, but those 

 sections nearest the nursery were given a pretty fair going over. 



By August 29th, 215 wild currant and 187 gooseberry bushes were dug out 

 at a labor expenditure of 176 hours. 



No eradication was carried out at Station No. 2. 



Chestnut blight continues. Private owners are utilizing diseased trees as 

 rapidly as possible. 



In this connection it may be of interest to note that 880 nuts of the Chinese 

 Chestnut, Castanea mollisima were planted on Station No. 1, during the 



