li'it <i\TSY AM) BROWN-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



ing the moth pest, do not look with favor on the brush cutting 

 and thinning operations so necessary before effective spraying 

 can be done. 



WENHAM. 



.7. D. BARNES, Local Superintend! nt. 



Although no residential sections in this town were found to 

 be seriously infested in the thorough scouting operations of last 

 winter, several important colonies were found in the woodland 



in the eastern part of the town. Wenham may be considered 



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a- generally infested throughout by both species of the moth. 

 Orchard and street trees were burlapped and carefully attended 

 during the caterpillar season, thousands of caterpillars being 

 ili 11- destroyed. The good condition of the residential districts 

 -j'eaks well for the quality of work done by the local superin- 

 tendent. Much remains to be done, however, in the way of 

 cutting worthless tree? and cementing cavities in those remain- 

 ing, while woodland colonies should be thinned out and put in 

 condition for spraying and bnrlapping. At Highland Wood 

 Lake, \vheiv there is a little colony of summer camps, the gypsy 

 moth was found in considerable numbers. Here the trees were 

 thinned and burlapped, and attended in part by the cottagers 

 and in part by the town forces. That this co-operative work 

 was successful is shown by the small number of egg clusters 

 found here this fall. At the present writing the street trees 

 have been cleared, and the destruction of egg clusters and 

 brown-tail moth webs on trees on private estates is in prosecu- 

 tion. 



\Y i -.STBOROI* < ; 1 1 . 



<'n \KIKS S. HKAKY. I.m-ul Sn/n /////. ml, nt. 



About a do/en small infestations were located in this town 

 in the winter and spring, and in "March and April a gang of 

 men \\vre used in clearing up infected sections and removing 

 brown-tail moth webs on private estates. About .~><H> caterpil- 

 lar- were taken under the burlaps during the summer, the ma- 

 jority being found at the so-called Parker colony. In the fall 

 in-pectioii no c-^ clusters were found in the colon!, s, hut in ', 

 oilier localilie- a number of oests were found. With the experi- 



