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Date 
Mar. 
13 
13 
23 
Mar. 
11 
Jan. 
27 
liar. 
2 
Orc hard and c ondition Lire 
Young applQ, in eras ted 303 
Young apple, heavily incrusted. 196 
Old apple, heavy incrustation . lj$2 
Young an pie, recent inf ostatlon*?. 3. 
11 £3 
Old peach, long-standing in- 
festation 635 
Same as above 422 
Dead 
725 
649 
S2S 
1442 
1603 
Total 
1029 
1045 
1008 
1837 3000 
2078 
2030 
$ dead 
70.5 
81.2 
81.9 
61.4 
69.4 
79.2 
Illinois 
Missouri 
Idaho 
Idaho 
Massachusetts 
Ohio 
In the last orchard mentioned, the mortality in the spring of 
1923 was 28 per cent and in 1924 was 57,3 per cent. 
W. P. Flint (March 11 ): Several periods of lew temperature have 
occurred in Illinois during the past winter, with temperatures of 
-22° to -24° F. at points north of Urbana, and correspondingly low 
temperatures in the southern part of the State. Peach "buds were 
killed in all hut the southern counties. These temperatures have 
caused a high winter mortality of the San Jose scale, about 5 per 
cent being found alive in the vicinity of Urbana, and 20 to 25 per 
cent in orchards in the vicinity of Anna. 
L. Haseman (March 13): Dormant sprays have again put the pest 
under control, though neglected orchards are badly infested in 
some sections. The scale situation, however, is very satisfac- 
tory in Missouri. 
Claude Wakeland (March 18): Examined 22,000 scales under the 
microscope during the past three reeks, coming from widely separ- 
ated districts of southwestern and southern Idaho, and of this 
number but 519 were alive. Of the 519 live insects, 399 of them 
were obtained in an examination of 500 scales on a water sprout 
below where the snow line had been; so a representative count ©f 
San Jose scale under orchard conditions is 130 live insects out 
of 21,500 examined. Tne temperature ranged from -24° to -35° on 
the coldest day of the winter, but there were two other days on 
which the thermometer registered within two degrees of the low 
point. All of the live scales have been found in localities 
where the minimum temperature registered about 24° to 26° F. 
S1T0WY TREE CRICKET ( pe cm thus niveus DeG. ) 
Claude Wakeland (March 18): Eggs of the snowy tree cricket have 
been killed extensively by cold weather but the percentage of mor- 
tality has not yet been determined. 
EUROPEAN RED MITE (Para totrrnychus pilosus C. & F. ) 
A. I. Bourne (March 25): Owing to the fact that many of the grow- 
ers gave particular attention to this post last spring and used 
the oils as a dormant spray, the pe3t seems to be slightly less 
prevalent than a year ago. 
H. A. Gossard (March 21): Great numbers of the eggs of the Euro- 
pean red spider mite were found on the trunks of apple trees in 
northeastern Ohio. 
