1908.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT No. 73. 95 



MARLBOROUGH. 

 F. B. PROCTOR, Local Superintendent. 



From January through April the local force, averaging from 

 25 to 30 men, was kept diligently occupied in cleaning the 

 brown-tail moth webs from street trees. On private property 

 some 45 small gypsy moth colonies were located and treated. 

 While this work was in process burlaps were freely used on the 

 infested estates, and in 19 of the colonies gypsy moth caterpil- 

 lars were taken. A great deal of good work has been done in 

 the way of thinning out infested roadsides and tinning cavities 

 in orchard trees. The fall inspection shows this city to be very 

 generally infested by the gypsy moth, while the brown-tail moth 

 is notably abundant. In the northerly part of the city the latter 

 insect is unusually abundant. The work for the winter and 

 spring should include a considerable amount of brush cutting 

 along fences, and the putting of numerous old orchards in such 

 condition that burlapping and spraying operations next summer 

 may be carried on economically and effectively. 



MARSHFIELD. 

 P. R. LIVERMORE, Local Superintendent. 



In the latter part of March, 1907, Mr. Livermore was ap- 

 pointed local superintendent of Marshfield. At this time there 

 were but 4 estates known to be infested by the gypsy moth. The 

 superintendent at once organized a gang of 3 men (all inexperi- 

 enced), and began work with such vigor that before June 1 

 the gypsy moth had been located on 58 estates, and 437 egg 

 clusters destroyed. All the infested estates were put in good 

 condition for burlapping, which was used with good results, 

 about 1,300 trees being banded and 8,463 larvae and pupse de- 

 stroyed. A complete scouting was not possible in the spring, 

 with the great amount of cleaning work to be done ; but a thor- 

 ough inspection of the town was made for the first time last fall, 

 with the result that over 100 estates (33 of them located in the 

 spring) were found infested with the gypsy moth. Eleven of 

 these are woods colonies of no great extent, presenting no special 



