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inspections and arranged for the proper treatment of the in- 

 fested trees. The preliminary inspection to show the kind and 

 amount of work needed was first made, and later the neces- 

 sary details were attended to either by local organizations or by 

 contractors, the work being inspected and approved by em- 

 ployees of this office before the bills were forwarded for pay- 

 ment. 



The State highway trees are particularly liable to infestation, 

 because the most excellent roads built by the commission offer 

 favorable routes of travel between various centers of population, 

 and are much frequented by automobiles. All told, there was 

 expended on this work up to December 1, $7,019.32. At the 

 present writing the trees on the State highways are in a most 

 excellent condition for future operations against the moths. A 

 great deal of infested brush has been cut, and a large number of 

 trees have been pruned, cemented or tinned and put in proper 

 condition for the economical control of the moths. Work has 

 been done on State highway trees in the following towns : - 



Acton. Hingham. Scituate. 



Amesbury. Holbrook. Southborough. 



Andover. Hudson. Stoneham. 



Ashland. Ipswich. Stoughton. 



Bedford. Lexington. Sudbury. 



Beverly. Lincoln. Swampscott. 



Billerica. Littleton. Tewksbury. 



Bourne. Lowell. Townsend. 



Boxborough. Lunenburg. Wayland. 



Braintree. Marlborough. Wellesley. 



Brockton. Melrose. Wenham. 



Burlington. Merrimac. West Bridgewater. 



Chelmsford. Methuen. West Newbury. 



Cohasset. Newbury. Westborough. 



Concord. Newburyport. Westford. 



Dover. North Reading. Weston. 



Framingham. Northborough. Weymouth. 



Gloucester. Qumcy. Wilmington. 



Groveland. Reading. Winchester. 



Hamilton. Revere. Wrentham. 



Harvard. Rockland. Yarmouth. 



Haverhill. Salisbury. 



