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Throughout the Eastern States aphid eggs in general on deciduous 
fruit trees are comparatively scarce, ■ •- 
Reports of very high mortality of the San Jose scale have been 
received from the Eastern and Central States as far south as Georgia, 
The Blastophaga that played so important a role in the establishment 
of the Smyrna fig industry of California is now playing a new role in 
that region as the vector of a disease known as fig endosepsis. 
Many larvae of the pepper weevil were found in February, indicating 
a low winter mortality in southern California. 
During the late fall and early winter the vegetable weevil very 
seriously damaged the turnip crop in psrts of Mississippi and Albania... 
