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eutting down of whole forests when much infested, in which case the 
remedy is almost worse than the disease. One other method is used 
by the State, but not within reach of Communes, therefore not described 
in the official pamphlet. A large electric light is placed in the forest by 
night and attracts thousands and hundreds of thousands of “ nonnen °’ 
e mouth of a large funnel through which a rapid deme current 
of air is forced, sucking in the ins eon by thousands into a hole under 
the earth where "they are buried. this is only a partial measure, 
for in a forest containing perhaps a ‘hundred millions of “nonnen” it 
is not much to de 
qox Forest Department ‘consequently fear an even greater extension 
he plague next year, and an even worse danger is threatened, viz 
diat of the * bark beetle," which, burrowing under the bark, is much 
ue injurious to the wood a nd more difficult to kill. It is always 
dealers by which only certain (iatis will be sold at a time, and 
prices will be. maintained, The yearly “cut” in the other Bavarian 
forests has also been much reduced. 
[Enclosure No. 2.] 
TRANSLATION of oa Article in the * Münchener Neueste Nachrichten ” 
of August 1 ; 1890, entitled * Chronicle of the ‘Dest truction of 
Forests coat the * Nonne? and other Wood Insects 
trees t 
and eee by forest insects. Fortunatel d these vanish as a rule 
as quickly as they come, by the operation o egeris agencies. This 
is the only consolation we have in view of the desolate condition to 
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Sure meee and to correct the views of those who are so ready with 
aeir judgments, and who ascribe the blame of. the misfortunes which 
have fallen on the forests solely to the forest officials. 
? pest 
or it is w pl E molem 
truetion b t plagues occurred 
hundreds of years ago, and I ata is when the trees gre 
emselves in primeval fashion and there was no question of forest 
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Ds ma in shale of Bryan mas dened e and sncedleclened irons but 
