38 GYPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



Since the cessation of the former State work this city has 

 made liberal expenditures in an effort to control both species 

 of the moths. From the facts that several electric car lines 

 centre here, and that an immense amount of travel reaches 

 Cambridge during the caterpillar season, the city is pecul- 

 iarly exposed to infestation from outside sources. A fairly 

 thorough inspection shows the gypsy moth scattered through- 

 out the entire city, while important colonies exist in the 

 section west of Harvard Square. A considerable amount of 

 spraying was done here during the caterpillar season with 

 good results, and at this writing the gypsy and brown-tail 

 moth nests have been destroyed on the street trees practi- 

 cally throughout the entire city. About 60 men are now 

 engaged in enforcing the law by clearing the moths from 



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private estates. 



The work in Cambridge has been carried on in a satis- 

 factory manner, but much remains to be done during the 

 coming season. The trees throughout the entire city should 

 be burlapped and carefully attended, while spraying will be 

 necessary in the worst infested sections. If the local authori- 

 ties continue to co-operate as freely with the State superin- 

 tendent in the future as they have in the past, there should 

 be no unusual difficulties in controlling the moth pests in 

 this city. 



CHELSEA. 



ALFRED L. MAGGI, Local Superintendent. 



1905, amount required before reimbursement, . . . $2,500 00 



1906, amount required before reimbursement, . . . 5,000 00 

 1905, amount expended in work against moths, . . . 1,806 59 

 1905, amount of State reimbursement, 



In Chelsea during the caterpillar season spraying was 

 carried out in certain sections infested by the gypsy moth. 

 The fall examination shows the city to be generally infested 

 with both brown-tail and gypsy moths. In the sections 

 near the Everett and Revere lines the gypsy moth occurs in 

 large numbers. On Garden and Parker streets and in the 

 Union Park section also numerous gypsy moth nests were 

 found. Chelsea is fortunate, from the standpoint of our 

 work, in possessing no woodland. 



