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. JEJIESH SGALB (. hi 1.3- is c.Tueli Tar-?. ) 
^fcndennall (October £0) : • The juniper scale is badly in- 
festing junipers in gTsee;x>.o'j,ses in Troy. 
LOCUST 
HICIICRY 30J&?. (Oyliene rofoniae " jForst . ) 
If. ri'. S-.enn: (eept ember ?5~0cto"ber 25) : & Cheyerne County corres- 
pondent reported that t.ha locust ' bOrer r?as "present in such abund- 
ance in a large grove of black locust trees, not nearly ho eai' s 
old, that during- the past su-p.er 25 per cent of the trees showed 
infestation, and about IOC of them --ere hilled. 
J. 0. 2 vends n (October 8): Dlaxing the pj.st year the cottony ne.pl « 
scale has increased in such number!? as to becorre a serious pest 
o- the shade trees thrpp^hent the city' of Qo'ckb? d'alene. Plans 
for corinfunity control have been started for the season of 1^,28. 
h_hh^-SJhIrfD WCRJ! (Jnirota rub icund. ~ab. ) 
h. .1. "re-":: (September 2S-0ctpber 25) ' * correspondent fron 
Sags -County reports early in October that the second brood cf 
the green-striped nc-.pie yorm had stripped .the -maple trees on his 
place Quite clpan of leaves! Sue first brood had been injurious 
earlier in the see^on. 
' • I'CUFIhJH PISE HEETLS (Ee ndroetonus m ontiac-lae Honk. ) . 
J. C. Sveneen (October G) : Throughout the rite- pine stands of 
northern Idaho the losses due to the" attack of the mountain pine 
beetle increased materially during the 1-2.6-27 seasons. This con- 
dition indicates strrt of another epidemic in the -hi te -pine sianc. - 
of thi s region. Recent s-.irveys shor: that in sortie i-roas over 50 
oer cent of the vhite pine has been destroyed in the past 10 years' 
Qirouehout the Salmon h Challir, Soise, Idaho, .trd Payette ITationa'.' ' 
Tor 3 st s a yery severe outbreak of the mountain pine beetle exists 
in the lodye pole-pine and i ell d~- pine stands. It is imvoossib. e • 
to even estimate tne de'raa^e —inch has occurred at this time. It 
is safe to assume that in the next ie~t y jar s at least '40 per cent 
of the timber stands "dll be killed. 
