western part of Riverside County. Damage is severe. 
PSaCH 3GR3R (Aeger ia exitiosa Say) 
Georgia c . I. Snapp (.^ril lU): Results from the general use of 
paradichlorobenzene last fall in the G2cr~ia peach 
"been uniformly excellent, <igain injury has resulted from 
the use of naradichlorohenze-ne in one,- t o,- and three-year- 
old experiment! orchards. ■ Fear years is the minimum age 
limit for t v e use of paradichlorohe- zeae ~"ith safety in this 
latitude, some feT7 aro^ers v?ho were .unable to apply the 
material lact fall ?.re Taking snrinn replications. 
SHOT-HOLE 3a?d31 ( Scolytns ru-~ a lo*us Ratz.) 
Mississippi R. v;. Earned Upril"21)j The fruit-tree barkbeetle and other 
bark-beetles ore apparently causing more damage in the State 
this year than for several years, probably o^ina in rart :-t least 
to the unprecedented drouth of last su-v.:er. Trees of all hinds 
throu'hottt the State -ere seriously injur sC by this drouth. 
HLUM CUR CUT. 10 ( Conotrachelus nerunhar Ebst.) 
Georria Oliver I. Snapp Upril lU) : Cn account of a large curculio 
modulation in the prchards last fall, c s e result of £ part 
of the 192^ pe; ch crom left in the orchards vhen the condition 
of the markets -as unsafcisf actor::, and on account of the lo*~ 
mortality of the adults in hibernation during the mild -inter, 
the infestation in middle Georgia peach orchards is heavy at the 
present time. This is indicated by the many "stuna" peaches, 
and the large-' numbers' of adults that re heina cru- r ht by jarrin-. 
In one orchard o~er 1,060 beetles "ere caught from sun-un to 
3. CO a. m. Cne aro v er"...renorts a etch of 500 curcnlios in one 
morning -ith one set of frames. The number of adults that 
survived the "inter is greater than it has besn for four yen-s. 
The oercenta-^es of ''inter survival off adult curculics in various 
hibernating conditions folio"': 
Bermuda Crass - 7*4.3 pine needles - So.U 
Cak leaves - 33.3 dare around . - 12.4 . 
honthly Letter, dureati of ddito -Olomy , To. 1}1 (!' rch) : ?or 
sever?! months 0. I. Snap- , oz the port valley laboratcr", in 
cooner:tion -'ith'3. R. Coad and 3, Johnson, of the Taliulah, La,, 
boll ••eevil 1 boratory, h r been -ivin.T attention to the 
perfection of the technioue dor usina airplanes hi ducting neach 
trees a.t Port Valley. T'- is orkh-s involved the adjustment 
of the feeding mechanism of the planes eo that they ' p--.ld' evenly 
distribute the heavy du^t Used, on -each. .C, I. Snapp rraorts 
that the firrt airplane dust in- of ' com sroial p ch orchard 
for the control of an insect -•■ st fcooh -Ire., at h'ontc?u--~ , C-. . , 
M rch 23, '-he.:, in one hour o 1 fifty-five minutes, 10,000 
ch tr is "era dustc- 1 -ith, a ^ir.ture of rscnate of lea 1 and 
hydrate^, li- . recorded tima included that snant in madias. 
