1906.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT No. 73. 91 



ganized and instructed by Inspector C. S. Mixter, Jr., of 

 this office, and the necessary work against the moths is prac- 

 tically completed at this writing. The brown-tail moth is 

 not very abundant in the town, and the expense of the neces- 

 sary work against both species will be small, unless the 

 general inspection which will be made in the near future 

 should reveal the presence of large gypsy moth colonies. 



RANDOLPH. 

 ROYAL T. MANN, Local Superintendent. 



1905, amount required before reimbursement, .... $399 05 



1906, amount required before reimbursement, .... 798 10 

 1905, amount expended in work against moths, estimated, . 15 00 

 1905, amount of State reimbursement, 



The State inspectors from this office have located 10 places 

 infested with the gypsy moth in Randolph, principally in 

 the residential section. One finding of the moth was made 

 on the roadside in the woods near the Blue Hills Park 

 Reservation. As yet there has been no thorough inspection 

 of woodland. The local superintendent has cleared the 

 street trees of both species of the moths, and is now carrying 

 on the necessary work on private estates where the brown-tail 

 moth occurs in small numbers. The sections where the 

 gypsy moth has been located should be burlapped next sea- 

 son, and the colonies near the park reservation should be 

 thinned out and put in proper condition for treatment. 



ROCKLAND. 



FRANK H. SHAW, Local Superintendent. 



1905, amount required before reimbursement, . . . $659 09 



1906, amount required before reimbursement, . . . 1,318 18 

 1905, amount expended in work against moths, estimated, . 250 00 

 1905, amount of State reimbursement, 



Eight gypsy moth colonies have been located in the cen- 

 tral part of the town, and the inspection is still in progress. 

 None of the colonies so far found are of large size, and it 

 should be easy to bring them under control by the applica- 

 tion of thorough methods. The usual method of burlapping 



