GYPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



ninth infestation.-, where the egg clu-ter- were carefully creo- 

 ...1 ; inl the colonies watched during the summer months. 

 The hill in-pection. po-sible for the tir-t time in thi- town, 

 -how. d n<> gyp-y moths iii places where eg:: clusters were Mind 

 in the -prim:. In other part- of the town :> nests, all told, 

 were found. These colonie- are being ]>ut in good con<litioii 

 for next year's work. Ilru-h i- being cut, cavities tinned and 

 dead trees removed. The work of destroying the hrown-tail 

 moth wehs is. no\\- in progress, and the support of the work by 

 the citi/ens in general and the board of selectmen in particular 

 has heen constant throughout the year. With such conditions 

 prevailing, thorough work next summer with burlap and spray- 

 ing should hring ahout a great improvemenl in the condition of 

 thi- town. 



BOXFORD. 



CHARLES PERLEY, Local SUJK rind . //< /</. 



Much good work lias been done here against the moth pests 

 during the year. Particularly commendable has been the thor- 

 ough overhauling of infested orchards by the local superintend- 

 cut, while the infestations along roadsides have been well at- 

 tended to. Street trees and those on private property were 

 cleaned of moth nests, ami later were biirlapped and cared for 

 during the season. A limited amount of spraying on the badly 

 infested private estates gave good results. Aside from the 

 -iiiirle gyp-y moth colony on the Ipswich Road, where lumber- 

 ing operations were carried on before the trees were cleared of 

 t-ii-j: elu-ters, the t ree> in the entire town are in a greatly im- 

 provi d condition as compared with P-Mlll. At the proent writ- 

 ing the clearing of the street tree- i- in pro^iv--. After private 

 estates have been cleared the work will be followed up during 

 the coming year with the usual operations of hurlapping, spray- 

 ing, etc. 



BRAINTREE. 



K. I-:. A.BEBCEOMBIE, l.<-,i! Sti/i, r'niliinl, nt. 



A very ihoron^li -cinitiiiM- i.f thi- town was made during the 

 winter months by the local aiilhoriiie-. gvpsy moth egg cliisi 

 being found throughout the eniire town. A beginning wa- 

 made in the work of .-learin^ up the old orchards, but un- 



