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both of the local peach growers and of the technical men supervising 
this project that an extremely important and progressive step has 
been taken in the campaign to eradicate phony peach disease from the 
United States. 
Delay in approval of organization plans by State and county 
officials, together with the closing of the Federal projects at a 
date earlier than originally contemplated, prevented the completion -- 
of the work outlined in most of-.the counties; but, in view of the 
strong local support of this work, these activities were continued 
practically unchanged as State Civil Works. projects, and by the time 
the State projects are discontinued it is probable that the greater 
part of the activities originally outlined will have been accomplished. 
Up to the closing of the Federal Civil Works Administration projects 
(February 15, 1934) a total of 432,646 abandoned and wild trees in 
Alabama and 3,508,277 in Georgia had been removed by county projects. 
Detaiked figures of the accomplishments of the State Civil Works 
projects since February 15 are not yet available. With the continua~ 
tion of the State projects to approximately the lst of April, however, 
these totals will be carried considerably beyond the 4,000,000 mark. 
Citrus Canker Eradication 
The Federal Civil Works project on Citrus Canker Eradication in 
Texas was discontinued on February 15. Yp to that date approximately - 
75 men had been employed by the C WA, resulting in about 9,000 man- 
hours of employment.’ Over 189,000 trees of the hardy orange (Citrus 
trifoliata) in stock of abandoned nurseries or escaped from cultiva~ 
tion and capable of barboring the citrus canker disease, were destroyed, 
and in addition 186 infected orchard trees near Dickinson were de- 
stroyed, This work represents an important step toward the construc— 
tive elimination of this disease from Texas.” 
The Citrus Canker Eradication work carried on in Texas until 
February 15 as a Federal Civil Works project is being continued as a 
State Civil Works project under the supervision of an agent of the 
- Bureau of Entomology. Valuable progress is being made in reducing 
he Citrus trifoliata plants suspected of harboring canker infections, - 
as is shown by the following table covering the first woek of the 
State project: 
