30 GYPSY AND BROWN-TAIL .MOTHS. [Jan. 



We are obliged, and rightly, to keep constantly in view the 

 economic side of the gypsy moth problem. Our fruit trees, 

 shade trees and shrubbery must be amply protected ; otherwise, 

 depreciation of property values is bound to occur, not to men- 

 tion the discomfort and annoyance caused in so many ways by 

 the caterpillar swarms. 



There is also another phase of the problem, which appeals 

 strongly not only to tree lovers but to the population of our 

 badly infested cities and their suburbs. In addition to the mag- 

 nificent system of metropolitan parks, there are in the badly 

 infested moth district hundreds of small parks and squares 

 whose beauties are as keenly enjoyed by the great working class 

 as by their neighbors to whom fortune has given greater oppor- 

 tunities for leisure ; furthermore, not all the beauty spots in the 

 woodlands have as yet been acquired for public uses, yet many 

 of them are freely thrown open to the public by their owners. 

 It has been our constant purpose to have all these places of pub- 

 lic resort protected as thoroughly as possible from the inroads 

 of the moth pests, and to this end we have repeatedly urged 

 that they receive proper care at the hands of local authorities. 

 Thoiv have been cases, however, as previously mentioned, where 

 a little judicious, direct help on the part of this department has 

 been a great benefit not only to the people of the city or town 

 in which the park was located, but to the greater public at large. 

 The amount so expended has been small, but the results ob- 

 tained, we believe, will prove to be far reaching and of perma- 

 nent value. 



The amount expended on this feature of the work against 

 tin- moths is tabulated below: 



Lynn Woods Reservation, ...... $.">,000 00 



Contingent upon the city of Lynn expending a like <uni. 

 rim- Hanks Park, Maiden and Mel rose, .... l.'.'.'i? 00 



Contingent upon 1 lie cities of Maiden and Melrose prop- 

 erly spraying the park in the summer of 1908. 

 Ell Pond and Se\v;dl's Wood- parks, Melrose, . . 1 ,.")00 00 



Lr and thinning operations. The city of Melrose 

 to fulloxv up this \vork by spraying. 



