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GARDEN SPRINGTAIL (Smint hurus ho rt. ens is Fitch) 
Massachusetts H. T. Fernald (June 22). "On Hay 27 complaints of the work 
of a podurid were received from Sunderland and on examination 
they were found prtosnt in extreme abundance. A survey of 
th^ Valley showed them present in every onion field from the 
northern limits at Sunderland to the Holyoko Range, a distance 
of about 10 miles, and across the Valley throughout the limits 
of onion growing, a distance of about 5 miles. The exact 
nature of their effect could not be satisfactorily determined 
but on the smaller plants in some cases half of them were 
destroyed. Older stands showed less injury and seered to be 
able to outgrow the damage." 
BESTS 
BEET R00T-:x v 'KT^ ( Pemphigus b etae Doane) 
Colorado C. P. Gillette (June 2l) . "Recently the agriculturist of the 
Great Western Sugar Company in Fort Collins took me to a field 
of beets that were just being thinned and that were looking 
badly. A thorough examination convinced us that the beets 
were suffering soversly from the attack of the beet root&louse 
which was present on the roots of most of the little beefs. 
The agriculturist told me that a near-by field was plowed 
up because of injury by this louse that had lived over winter 
in the ground." 
