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as it does the most seriously infested towns, such headway has 

 been gained that it will be possible in several cases to reduce 

 the allotments of expense for 1908. In other words, in some of 

 the central towns the crisis has been met and has safely passed. 

 In others, where the problem still involves the care of large areas 

 of infested woodlands, or where suitable expenditures have not 

 been made in the recent past, the fight must be still kept up with 

 unabated vigor. 



In the " outer districts," as we have arbitrarily delimited it, 

 are found towns and cities of all degrees of infestation by the 

 gypsy moth, from that of Hyde Park or Bedford, where large 

 numbers of the moth are still in evidence, to that of Leicester 

 or Townsend, where but single small colonies exist. The con- 

 dition of each city and town is briefly summarized in the pages 

 that follow. 



Central District. 



ARLINGTON. 

 W. H. BRADLEY, Local Superintendent, 



The work in this town has been carried forward this year 

 with unabated interest on the part of the local officials, and 

 excellent systematic work has been done in combating the moth 

 pests throughout the year. Fall and winter cleaning, tangle- 

 footing, burlapping, spraying and closing of cavities, all re- 

 ceived attention. Koadsides have been cleared of underbrush, 

 and in woodlands previously thinned the underbrush has been 

 removed. These various operations have been pushed vigor- 

 ously during their proper seasons, and excellent results have 

 been obtained. 



The clearing of Sucker Brook valley during the winter and 

 spring of 1907 has helped materially in controlling the moth 

 pests in the central section of the town. 



The improved condition of the residential sections will now 

 allow the local superintendent to take up the work of clearing 

 the woodlands in the western part of the town, thereby protect- 

 ing not only Menotomy Rocks Park, but the entire residential 

 section at Arlington Heights. This will help in reducing the 

 cost of the coming season's work, and allow an extension of 

 woodland work on the eastern side of the town another year. 



