act. 
The first feeding injuries from Scolytus this spring in New Jersey were ob- 
served on May..eS and incdicateds that feeding began probably a week before that 
date, Very little feeding has been observed so far but Scolytus beftles are 
abundant enough tovattack Graphium-affected trees promptly. : 
The small force on Public Works funds in New Jersey was concentrated on small 
areas of extremely heavy population on elms, and considerably less than a square 
mile of territory was worked. In Connecticut only mapping was done and about 84 
square miles were completed, n New York over 1343 square miles were mapped and 
over 28 square miles were covered by inspection work, The inspection work was 
performed largely in Nassau County, where the beginning of the work had been long 
Gelayed, At the end of May only four trees that were definitely Graphiun-—diseased 
were still standing. However, many of the 124 unreported suspects showed charac- 
teristic symptoms and the number of trees to be removed may be expected to in- 
crease very rapidly now. 

hony Peach Eradication ‘ 

While inspecting for the phony peach disease in several of the nore south— 
western counties of Georzic, our arents found that the trees in practically all 
commercial peach orchards have been pulled up. This will certainly relieve our 
work very materially, because these orchards were heavily infected and many of 
then were semiabandoned, The majority of our agents spent the entire month of May 
in eradication of wilc peaches in Peach, Houston, Crawford, Macon, and Spalding 
Counties. Although there was a great deol of rain durinc the month, it so happen— — 
ed that the men were able to work et least a part of every cay in the field, 
Wild peach trees were removed during the nozth, as follows: 

a ee ae re ae 



Count : Wild trees renoved 
: lfumber 
Peacin ato Ase See ae L155 44 
Crawrors. a, oe: 1,736° 
BOSE ON. ot ha a a ee a 2,297 
Macon... <s-s He aS : 340 
LOIS. scene ee oe ; : Sei fett 
DOUBT os. ook wee eee ss che shin ct alin ee St a 
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This type of work has been completed in Peach County for the present. During 
the past 6 months a total of 1,185,546 wild trees were removed in Peach County, as 
followss 
Federal CWA Project ... 
SLL. BIOTEC Une facie vat ee 14,415 
Our Arentea: ous. ita se ebigkte Mee ce 2515 16o 
TOC SS at oe ee Petes et ins tee 
ale cannery dumps, located in or near the city of Fort 
: sestroyed 862,000 trees on them. Cannery Curps are not common 
ehrowet the State of Georcin and for this reason the total number of wild trees 1~: 
+ 7 ae ee ne 77 “ . . . . . > . : 
found in Peach County cowl2 aot serve as a criterion for judging conditions with 
There are four not 
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