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CH EERY 
SHOT-HOLE BORER ( Scolytus rugulosus Rat 2. ) 
J. A. Kyslop (October 15): Several Japanese cherry trees 
near Silver Spring Here killed by the shot-hole borer. 
G. L. Bond (October 16): The shot-hole borer is reported 
in the Mize vicinity, and in fact it is doing some damage 
in all sections of Jones, Smith, Covington, Wayne, and 
Jasper Counties, especially to. trees 771x1011 have suffered 
from winter injury and peach-tree borers. 
G. F. Knowlton (October 20): A few cases of shot-hole 
borer injury to young peach and cherry trees, have been 
recently observed in northern Utah. 
PLUM 
PLUM GQUGER ( Anthonomus Scutellari a Lee. ) 
M. H.Swenk (September 1-October 15): A Platte County 
correspondent reported that the plum gouger ( Coccotorus 
prunicida) had practically ruined her crop of plums during 
September. 
CRANBERRY 
CRANBERRY ROOT WORM ( Hh?.bdot>teras ni cipes Oliv. ) 
Staff of Geneva Experiment Station (September 29): The 
cranberry rootworm is very abundant at Red Creek. 
BLACKBERRY 
A MITE ( Eriophye s sp. ) 
S. E. Crumb (September 1): Evergreen-, Himalaya, Law ton, 
Eldorado, and Kittatinny blackberries are attacked, apparentlv 
indiscriminately by what appears to be E. gracilis "..'al., ^nd 
mites apparently of the some species have been found on at 
least two varieties of raspberry and on logrnberry. Three 
separate infested areas are known — one in southern Oregon ex- 
tending as far north as Yoncalla and vest to Myrtle Point, 
another in the Willamette Valley as far south as Tangent and 
extending north to Vancouver, Wash., and a third in the 
Fuyallup Valley about Fuyallup and Sumner. The infestation is 
especially heavy about 7,'oodburn, Oreg. , where the blackberry 
crop is practically a tot-1 loss in many fields. 
