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foliage of young peach trees during the early spring. Reports of injury 
were received from several localities in North Carolina, including Aber- 
deen, Southern Pines, Pinehurst, and Candor, and at Cheraw, §. C. Thes 
beetles were frequently taken in jarring peach trees for the curculis, 
but the injury to the older trees was not serious. This species is a 
nocturnal feeder. The beetles were found in great nutbers in some young 
peach orchards and investigations showed that they usually burrow inte 
the soil to a depth of one inch near the crowm of the tree. 
Ants have been very troublesome on peach trees set out this 
on recently cleared woodland in the sand hills of North and South C 
lina, and some trees have been badly defoliated by them. One species, 
which is believed to be Solenopsis geminata but has not yet been aut 
tatively determined, cuts the foliage and carries the bits of Leaves 
its nest. This species is without doubt the one that causes most of 
injury. The damage by ants is greatly reduced by freauent stirring of 
the soil by means of orchard cultivators, and for all practical purposes 
this seems to cope with the situation satisfactorily. Peach orchards 
Set out on old land do not appear to be troubled at ail by ants. 
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Fred E. Brooks, at French Creek, W. Va., reports that late spring 
frosts did considerable damage in certain places to the crop of walnuts 
and butternuts in the general locality of Pemsylvania and West Virginia. 
Of the young nuts that set there has been noted a considerable dropping 
due to the attacks of various species of Conotrachelus. Some of the 
members of this group affecting nuts are discussed in Department Bulietin 
1066, now in press, 
Stanley W. Bromley, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, has 
been appointed temporary assistant at the Wallingford, Com,, laboretory 
and will assist B. A. Porter in the study of the apple maggot, tent 
caterpillar, etc. 
W. D. Whitcomb recently gave a talk on the life history of the 
codling moth and its control before a meeting of fruit growers at Kettle 
Falls, Wash. 
A. Pederson, gardener and horticultural adviser of the 
Gardeners' Association, Copenhagen, Denmark, was a recent visi 
Yakima, Wash., station. 
The services of Dr. H. L. Dozier have been secured in cormection 
with the camphor scale work, for which a special appropriation of $15,000 
was made by Congress. He will devote particular attention to biological 
studies of the insect, and carry out experiments with remedies, His 
headquarters are at New Orleans, La. 
T. F. Catchings, who has been assisting in connection with the 
Mexican bean beetle investigations at Birmingham, Ala., has been trans- 
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