EOROPS '' :■"" MITE ( Para tetranychus yi l^sue C. & F. ) 
Massachusetts A. I. Bourne (October 22): Indicate >ns - re tliat thers has 
"burn : . increase in tb i r<=>d mite in v y many 
orchards. Is is based en the apprord nate i won-* of over*7inter- 
ing eggs which have been deposited and can be readily detected in 
the orchards at tl is time. 
DCCI" FALS3 "OEM (Aue_tpc ; : _ forata Ball.) 
Massachusetts A. I. Bourne (October 22): An interesting report came to us 
about the middle of the mouth frc:r -.n orchard just below r.s in 
South Amherst, where a finding r c( rable amo"u t 
of typical injury c used by the so-called dock false '.Term. This 
' in jury was noted principally on the Baldwin. The latest estimate 
which I hav arc 1 fi : . this grower places this typical injury up 
to about 20. per cent ot^ the c: .us far harvested. 'This is 
rather interesting to -us bocaus.e it is practically the first tire 
this has been reported to us as occurring in any abundance. 
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SAN JOSE SCALE (As?Jdiot-.-s r^rni_cj£sus Somst.) 
3 ; irgia 0. I. Snapp (October 15): Numerous reports have been received at 
the laboratory at Fort Valley from all over the poach belt in re- 
gard to the rapid increase of the San Jose scale durin -t 
year. The increase is apparently just as great in orchards that 
were treated by lubricating- oil emulsion as in those "here liquid 
lime- sulphur was used. (October 2i): fT&e -■ rkeu increase in 
the San Jose scr.le in Georgia peach orchards is in all probability 
due to the very hot and dry Augui and September. ;se conditions 
appear to favor rapid scale reproduction. The increase has been 
so rapid in some orchards that the vitality of the tr?os was being 
■materially lowered, and .in order". to check the drain on the trees 
some growers had to. use a 2 per ceni, lubricacing-oil emulsion be- 
fore the tree" defoliated. 
OEIEFTAL FE LCH MOTH ( I/> s-p e-^re s ia mo 1 1 s ta Bus'ck) 
Georgia 0. I. Snapp and assistants (October 15): Saven ger orations of 
the Oriental perch moth rave been reared ir ere insect; ry - : Fort 
Valley this year. 
Alabama 17. F. Howard (October 13): Abundant enough on 11 you:.*; peach 
trees to be' noticeable to the owner, who brought specimens to the 
laboratory. It has been comparatively scarce heretofore. 
