44 GYPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



Upon request of the superintendent the city government 

 of Maiden in June, 1905, appropriated $5,000 for work 

 against the gypsy and brown-tail moths. The city, of course, 

 is very generally infested by the gypsy moth ; in fact, it 

 may be considered as one of the worst infested places in the 

 whole district. 



In past years a great deal of good work has been done in 

 Maiden under the direction of Mr. George W. Stiles, super- 

 intendent of streets. A limited amount of banding of trees 

 was carried out during the caterpillar season, and the re- 

 sults from spraying were particularly satisfactory. 



As soon as the egg clusters were laid in 1905, the local 

 superintendent started a gang of men at work treating the 

 eggs on street trees from the ground to above the probable 

 snow-line. The border of the infested woodland adjacent 

 to the Fells Reservation of the metropolitan park system 

 has been thinned out and placed in suitable condition for 

 banding and spraying next year. The trees belonging to 

 the city at Waite's Mount and in Forest Dale Cemetery 

 have been thinned out and put in proper condition for next 

 season's work. The local superintendent, in spite of many 

 obstacles to thorough work, has accomplished most satisfac- 

 tory results, and the property owners throughout the city 

 have shown a spirit of co-operation. If all land owners will 

 perform their obligations under the law with as much faith- 

 fulness as has the local superintendent, the gypsy moth in 

 Maiden will soon be brought under control. A great deal 

 of spraying and burlapping will be necessary next season, 

 and in the infested woodlands now thinned of dead and 

 worthless trees banding with some preparation to prevent 

 the ascent of caterpillars should be done. 



MANCHESTER. 

 ROBERT A. MITCHELL, Local Superintendent. 



1905, amount required before reimbursement, . . . f 2,030 05 



1906, amount i-equired before reimbursement, . . . 4,060 10 

 1905, amount expended in work against moths, . . . 1,121 57 

 1905, amount of State reimbursement, 



The gypsy moth occurs throughout this town, and the 

 brown-tiii I moth is plentiful. In the central residential 



