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specters were found and examined while scouting the different 

 towns for diseased Rihes. A total of 1,039,909 planted pines 

 were examined and found to be free from disease; also several 

 acres of native pines of all ages were inspected, some of which 

 showed infection. 



Scouting the entire State for the rust necessitated the visiting 

 of several thousand places and the examination of thousands of 

 cultivated Ribes. There were 1,284 places which had diseased 

 cultivated Ribes, and this figure does not include those found 

 within the areas where complete elimination of all Ribes was 

 attempted. In a few cases it was necessary to serve a notice 

 ordering the removal of the diseased bushes. It was impossible 

 to visit all of these places again to see if the notice was carried 

 out, but this was done in many places, and in practically every 

 case the bushes had been destroyed. It seems safe to assume, 

 therefore, that most of the people complied with the law in 

 this respect, and that the majority of the cultivated currants 

 found infected this year have been destroyed. 



A total of 41,431 separate diseased pine trees or parts of 

 trees were removed during the past year. In some cases 150 

 to 200 infected twigs and branches were cut off of a single 20- 

 foot tree. In one case 194 diseased parts were removed from 

 30 large native trees; 200 were cut from 40 trees and 227 from 

 20 trees, etc. Many diseased trees and parts of trees were re- 

 moved after the "fruiting" period of the pine had passed, but 

 in Essex County alone, where considerable pine inspection w^as 

 done at this time of the year, 9,722 "fruiters" were found and 

 removed. The above figures give a further idea of the capa- 

 bilities of this disease in its attack upon the white pine. Be- 

 sides the white pine, one Pinus flexilis, one Pinus cembra and 

 one Piniis Sp. (?) were found infected during the past year in 

 Massachusetts. 



It was of interest to note that in a great many cases the soft, 

 swollen, diseased bark of infected pines was more or less chewed 

 off, presumably by squirrels or mice. These animals are per- 

 haps attracted by the soft bark and the sweet pycnidial juices 

 produced by the disease. 



On an estate in Massachusetts several young native pine 

 seedlings were inspected on July G and no trace of the rust 



