44 (iVl'SV AM) P>KO\YX-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



months. All street trees were burlapped, and in the majority 

 of the orchards sticky bands were applied to the fruit trees. 

 The large amount of spraying along the streets, in orchard- and 

 in certain badly infested woodlands gave excellent results, while 

 tin- assistance of the employees of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture in treating the badly infested roadsides was most 

 helpful. Itoadside trimming, the cleaning of street trees and 

 thinning of certain badly infested woodlands is now in progress. 

 The residential section of this town shows a great improvement 

 over the condition of 1906, but in many sections of the wood- 

 lands the moths have greatly increased, - - a fact which is now 

 beginning to be apparent to interested property owners. A very 

 larire amount of work will be required in this town to cope thor- 

 oughly with the woodland problem. 



MALDEN. 

 GEO. L. STILES, Local Superintendent. 



Owing to the efficient management of the local superintendent 

 in this city, conditions have continued to improve throughout 

 the whole residential section, and at the present time very few 

 gyp>y moth nests can be found except in the outlying wood- 

 land districts. This result has been obtained prinei pally by the 

 UPC of tanglefoot bands, and by spraying in certain badly in- 

 fested sections. At the present writing all city properly has 

 been cleaned of the moth pests, and the enforcemenl of the law 

 on neglected private properly is Avell under way. 



The coming season the work should consist of the continued 

 use of sticky bands or burlap, spraying of woodlands ne;ir resi- 

 dential sections, tinning cavities in the street trees formerly 

 filled with cement, cutting and removing decayed or worthless 

 fruit and ornamental trees on private property, the closing of 

 cavities in the remaining trees with tin, the clearing up of 



underbrush in the w Hands adjoining the residential section, 



and thinning the remaining growth as far as practicable. The 

 woodland work the coining year should be extended as far as 

 available appropriations will allow, thus reducing the cost of 

 future wo preventing the reinfeslat ion of the residential 



section. 



