46 GYPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



MEDFORD. 

 JOHN D. DWTEK, 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, . . . 12,684 89 

 1905, amount of State reimbursement, 5,092 45 



Medford, the original centre of gypsy moth infestation, 

 as might be expected is thoroughly infested by the insect. 

 The city offers one of the most difficult problems in moth 

 control in the whole district. The entire residential section 

 is thoroughly infested, and the large colonies in the wood- 

 land in the northern part of the city annually yield swarms 

 of caterpillars to reinfest estates and street trees previously 

 cleared of the moth. 



Gen. S. C. Lawrence, the largest owner of woodland in 

 the city, has for years waged a most vigorous campaign 

 against the gypsy moth, and his efforts along this line can- 

 not be too highly commended. He has not only succeeded 

 in controlling the pest on his own woodland, but, at a large 

 expense, has suppressed it also on many private estates. 



The city work against the gypsy moth has been vigorously 

 carried on under the local superintendent. During the 

 caterpillar season an effort was made to destroy as many 

 caterpillars as was possible under the burlaps and bands on 

 street trees. Following this, as soon as the eggs were laid, 



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vigorous efforts were made to clear the street trees, and at 

 this writing nearly all those on streets and in public squares 

 have been cleared of brown-tail as well as gypsy moths. 

 What is more important, the badly infested woodland area 

 in the northerly part of the city has been thinned and put in 

 condition for burlapping and spraying next season. 



A large amount of money must be spent in 1906 in band- 

 ing trees in the infested woodlands, in burlapping street 

 trees and in spraying. The city is so thoroughly infested 

 with the gypsy moth that a vigorous enforcement of effective 

 measures and the hearty co-operation of all citizens will be 

 required to bring the pest under control. 



