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S c A* Gossard (September 20): The basketworra is very prevalent 
over southern Ohio and is now found northward to the Lake 9 though 
in former years we did not expect to find it much north of 
Columbus* 
Jt. Jo Davis (September 22): The bagworm is again quite abundant 
and destructive in southern Indiana* 
H. Garman (September): The sackworm is exceptionally destructive 
just now to cedar and other evergreens in parks and on lawns. 
It is causing many trees to look as if they were killed* 
R. 77 „ Harned (September JS)i The bagworm was especially serious 
during July and August on cedar and arborvitae. Practically all 
of the complaints have come from the northern half of the State* 
J* 77 „ McColloch (September 20): Numerous reports of bagworra 
injury continue to come in from eastern Kansas* The principal 
damage has been to evergreens although in a few cases hard 
maple and boxelder have been attacked. 
A* N. Caudell (September 10): In Payne County I found bagworms 
almost completely defoliating evergreen trees and some dead 
ones were said to be have been killed by such defoliation. 
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Douglas Miller (u c So Trade Commissioner) (August U): The 
month of July has been a gradual checking of the devastation 
in German forests by the small night-flying moth described in 
Trade ITote No* d36 of July 2H. It is now considered that the 
most of the damage has been done and that no further ravages 
of the pest will be felt this year. There is also hope of saving 
some of the trees that have not been severely affected. 
A careful, survey of the districts where the pest has been 
most active shows three main areas, The first one is in East 
Prussia in the country around Allenstein; the second stretched 
south and east from Frankfurt on Oder; the third is in Pomerania 
from Stettin to Stargard. There are no later estimates of the 
amount of timber that will have to be cut and placed on the 
market this year., It is agreed that it will be a very large 
quantity and will severely depress the already weak lumber market. 
Prussian State authorities are making arrangements to give 
credit to buyers of state-owned timber so that they will be able 
to pay for their purchases over a whole season. In some quarters 
a report has been spread that the lumber cut on this account 
will be affected by the pest and will not be up to standard. This 
is vigorously denied by the State foresters who claim that the 
pest merely sucks the sap from the needles of the fir trees but 
that this can not have any effect on the wood itself. 
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