i:\-2 GYPSY AXD BROWX-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



As an evidence of the interest in the effort to suppress the 

 moth pests shown by the official entomologists of the country, 

 the following resolution may well find place at this point : - 



l;, solution on Hi,' Ciiijisif Moth Work, adapted (it the Chiroao 



of the Association of Economic Entomologists, Dec. 28, 1907. 

 Resolved, That the association heartily approves the work now being 

 <](>nc in the control of the gypsy moth and brown-tail moth by the State 

 of Massachusetts and other States and by the Bureau of Entomology; 

 and, inasmuch as we have heard of criticism of this work from certain 

 quarters, we hereby express our unqualified approbation of the present 

 management and of the methods which it has adopted; and, further- 

 in, n-c, would consider a change in policy as most dangerous to the vital 

 interests concerned in the most important work in applied entomology 

 that has ever been undertaken. 



\V. D. HUNTER, 

 E. DWIGHT SANDERSON, 

 ^1 F. L. WASHBURN, 



Committee on Resolutions. 



WORK OF OTHER STATE BOARDS. 



Again we acknowledge the continued help of other State 

 boards in the great problem of controlling the gypsy moth. The 

 work of the Metropolitan Park Commission, the Metropolitan 

 Water and Sewerage Board and the Massachusetts Highway 

 Commission are worthy of particular mention, while other 

 boards having under their control various public lands have 

 riven hearty co-operation. The summary of their operations 

 is given in the following correspondence : - 



BOSTON, Jan. 8, 1908. 



I'rof. A. H. Kll.'KLAND. XU/K rinli'itdrnt for S-ul>]ir>'xxin,i Gitpsi/ and 



Broirn-lail Moths. 



lM.\i; Sn;: -I have the honor to submit (lie following in response 

 to your request thai our I'.oanl should furnish yon a brief statement of 

 its work against the gypsy and bro\vn-1ail moths dnrinu: the past year 

 on lands under its supervision. 



The extensive work which lias been carried on by the Board in pre- 

 vious years on the lauds under its charue, not only at Spot I'oud but 

 in the towns of Medford, Arlington and Smnerville. lias resulted in 

 .illy reducing the number of uypsy moths, and it is believed that the 

 work of the p;ix| ye;ir u i 1 1 be felt by a still further reduction in their 

 number in the future. 



