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Title: Proceedings of the thirteenth annual meeting of the Association of Economic Entomologists
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: American Association of Economic Entomologists United States. Division of Entomology
Subjects: Entomology Entomology
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Entomology
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Bui. 31, New Series, Div. of Entomologry, U, S. Dept. of Agricultu Plate II.
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25 A conservative estimate would place the annual damage to peacliesand plums done by the curculio in Georgia at 25 i^er cent of the entirecrop. Aside from the work of the larvae in the fruit, the adalt beetlesare active agents in disseminating the brown-rot fungus, as evidencedby our observations during the past season. In a number of orchardsthat were sprayed with Bordeaux mixture it was observed that brownrol. developed almost exclusively on fruit that had been punctured oreaten into b)^ the curculio, and the point of brown-rot attack wasusually at wounds made by the beetles. It is evident, then, that thisinsect is responsible for considerable brown-rot damage either by actu-ally conveying the spores or by merely breaking the skin of the fruitfor their admission. THE JARRING METHOD IN THE HALE ORCHARD. Perhaps the most extensive work against tlie curculio that has everbeen undertaken in the histor^^ of ijeach and plum culture was con-ducted by the Hale Georgia Orchard Company, at F

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