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ises. One of the plum-trees here noticed had evidently been first 
attacked in an injured limb. Woodpeckers were said to have 
stripped the bark off many dead limbs in their search for larvae. 
By Dr. Pickles, of Anna, identical injuries were reported to 
occur on twelve other fruit farms within his knowledge, at this 
place. 
At Cobden, two places were visited where several apparently 
unhealthy apple-trees were badly infested, one of them nearly] 
denuded of bark by birds. Here also peach-, plum-, and cherry-) 
trees had been attacked. 
At Makanda, Jackson county, several plum-trees were found 
very full of holes, some of them completely riddled and appar¬ 
ently practically killed. Peach-trees here were also badly af¬ 
fected, but none of the injury was found in wild fruits of any 
kind, nor yet in nursery stock. 
At Du Quoin, in two places visited, plum-trees were injuredJ 
some seriously, others slightly; and at Centralia, in the orchard 
of Mr. Jabez Webster, President of the State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, the larvae of the beetles and their work were found in 
plum-, cherry-, and apple-trees, the first most seriously damaged. 
In the apple, however, they occurred only in branches previously 
injured or diseased. Several cherry-trees in different parts of the 
town were quite badly infested. 
From Tonti to Odin, only a single affected tree was found, and 
that a peach, the wild plum- and cherry-trees by the roadside 
and the apple-trees in the orchards seeming free from injury. 
At Albion, in Edwards county, the larva was found repeatedly 
in cherry, plum, and apple, the plum-trees suffering badly, one 
of them killed and stripped b}^ birds. At Olney the fruits already 
mentioned were similarly injured, the plum and peach most; 
and on one place here young plum-trees were affected. At Fair- 
field, in Wayne county, four places were visited, and beetles 
found in all, in each of the usual fruits. Here an injury to young 
apple-trees was noticed,—the only instance seen. 
No observations were made at that time west of the line of 
the Illinois Central railroad, but its probable occurrence in this 
region is shown by a communication from Prof. Herbert Osborn, 
of Iowa, published in the “Orange Judd Farmer,” of Chicago, 
for Jan. 10, 1891 (p. 20), in which he mentions the receipt from 
a correspondent at Girard, Macoupin county, Illinois, of portions 
of an injured plum-tree showing quite plainly the work of the 
fruit bark beetle: and I have since learned of its presence near 
Heinrichtown, in St. Clair county, and at Alton, in Madison 
county. 
