142 GYPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



by the moths in dangerous numbers, while the remainder has 

 numerous scattering colonies. Stoneham has upward of 350 acres 

 seriously infested in the southern part of the town, while 375 acres 

 lying to the north are slightly infested. All the woodland in Med- 

 ford in private hands, some 700 acres, is in a dangerous condition ; 

 and the same holds true at Maiden, the area in the latter case being 

 about 300 acres. Everett has 20 acres dangerously infested near 

 and in the Woodlawn Cemetery ; while in Revere there are about 

 75 acres of wood and brush laud dangerously infested. Of the 

 1,200 acres in Melrose, all, with the exception of about 100 acres 

 in the northern part of the city, should be considered dangerously 

 infested. The moth occurs in smaller numbers in the remainder 

 of the woodland area. The dangerously infested tract of wood- 

 land at Wakefield includes about 100 acres between Oak and 

 Main streets, running easterly to the Saugus line. Some 400 

 acres are scatteringly infested. Saugus contains about 2,500 

 acres of woodland, all dangerously infested ; and the same condi- 

 tion obtains in some 900 acres in the southern part of Lyuufield. 

 In addition, there are about 1,000 acres in this town scatteringly 

 infested. Some 4,700 acres of wood, sprout and brush laud at 

 Peabody contain scattering gypsy moth colonies, but none that 

 are known to be in a dangerous condition at present. Of the 

 woodland at Lynn, about 2,000 acres are held by the park and 

 water boards, with 700 acres under private ownership. No part 

 of this area is free from infestation ; in fact, it all may well be put 

 in the dangerous class. At Swampscott 250 acres are badly in- 

 fested on the western side of the town, and about as much more 

 on the eastern side is slightly infested. Marblehead has about 

 100 acres mildly infested; Salem, approximately 800 acres of 

 wood and brush land, including the Great Pastures, severely in- 

 fested, with about 100 acres more where the moth occurs in 

 smaller numbers. At Beverly there are about 3,000 acres of 

 woodland, much of which is old growth and contains many fine 

 trees. This entire woodland area is scatteringly infested, the 

 sections about Weuham Lake at North Beverly needing attention 

 in the near future to keep the moth from developing in dangerous 

 numbers. 



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