diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial.rst b/docs/intro/tutorial.rst
index 6a8ba3c95..f860ccedf 100644
--- a/docs/intro/tutorial.rst
+++ b/docs/intro/tutorial.rst
@@ -389,8 +389,8 @@ should be like this::
 
 Now doing a crawl on the dmoz.org domain yields ``DmozItem``'s::
 
-   [dmoz.org] INFO: Scraped DmozItem({'title': [u'Text Processing in Python'], 'link': [u'http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/'], 'desc': [u' - By David Mertz; Addison Wesley. Book in progress, full text, ASCII format. Asks for feedback. [author website, Gnosis Software, Inc.]\n']}) in <http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Books/>
-   [dmoz.org] INFO: Scraped DmozItem({'title': [u'XML Processing with Python'], 'link': [u'http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0130211192'], 'desc': [u' - By Sean McGrath; Prentice Hall PTR, 2000, ISBN 0130211192, has CD-ROM. Methods to build XML applications fast, Python tutorial, DOM and SAX, new Pyxie open source XML processing library. [Prentice Hall PTR]\n']}) in <http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Books/>
+   [dmoz.org] DEBUG: Scraped DmozItem({'title': [u'Text Processing in Python'], 'link': [u'http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/'], 'desc': [u' - By David Mertz; Addison Wesley. Book in progress, full text, ASCII format. Asks for feedback. [author website, Gnosis Software, Inc.]\n']}) in <http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Books/>
+   [dmoz.org] DEBUG: Scraped DmozItem({'title': [u'XML Processing with Python'], 'link': [u'http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0130211192'], 'desc': [u' - By Sean McGrath; Prentice Hall PTR, 2000, ISBN 0130211192, has CD-ROM. Methods to build XML applications fast, Python tutorial, DOM and SAX, new Pyxie open source XML processing library. [Prentice Hall PTR]\n']}) in <http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Books/>
 
 
 Storing the data (using an Item Pipeline)
diff --git a/scrapy/core/scraper.py b/scrapy/core/scraper.py
index 2be14fad9..eac4176cf 100644
--- a/scrapy/core/scraper.py
+++ b/scrapy/core/scraper.py
@@ -152,7 +152,8 @@ class Scraper(object):
                 spider=spider)
             self.engine.crawl(request=output, spider=spider)
         elif isinstance(output, BaseItem):
-            log.msg("Scraped %s in <%s>" % (output, request.url), domain=domain)
+            log.msg("Scraped %s in <%s>" % (output, request.url), level=log.DEBUG, \
+                domain=domain)
             signals.send_catch_log(signal=signals.item_scraped, sender=self.__class__, \
                 item=output, spider=spider, response=response)
             self.sites[domain].itemproc_size += 1
@@ -187,13 +188,14 @@ class Scraper(object):
         if isinstance(output, Failure):
             ex = output.value
             if isinstance(ex, DropItem):
-                log.msg("Dropped %s - %s" % (item, str(ex)), log.DEBUG, domain=domain)
+                log.msg("Dropped %s - %s" % (item, str(ex)), level=log.WARNING, domain=domain)
                 signals.send_catch_log(signal=signals.item_dropped, sender=self.__class__, \
                     item=item, spider=spider, exception=output.value)
             else:
                 log.msg('Error processing %s - %s' % (item, output), \
                     log.ERROR, domain=domain)
         else:
+            log.msg("Passed %s" % item, log.INFO, domain=domain)
             signals.send_catch_log(signal=signals.item_passed, sender=self.__class__, \
                 item=item, spider=spider, output=output)