26 (iYl'M AND BKO\V.\-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



by tin- i:yp>y moth. Worcester, Gardner, Fitchburg, 

 Northampton, Holyoke, Springfield, Pittsfield, Lenox and Stock- 

 arc all places particularly liable to infestation, and 

 IK- kept under constant surveillance. From the topo- 

 graphical situation of "\Vorcester, and the immense amount of 

 automobile travel passing through the city in the summer months, 

 we have been most anxious lest the gypsy moth should find 

 Judgment there. A limited amount of scouting was done in 

 the city in I'.Mi;,, and during the latter part of August and 

 early in September, 1900, 5 inspectors from this office scouted 

 the residential district over a two-mile radius from City Hall. 

 Although this work was done while the leaves were still on the 

 trees, it is safe to say that had any important colonies of the 

 ninth existed they would have been discovered. We are glad to 

 -late that no moths were found, as a result of this inspection; 

 but Worcester should be kept under constant surveillance, par- 

 ticularly the easterly side toward Shrewsbury, along the main 

 r<>ad leading to Marlborough. 



( 'ompared with the returns presented in last years report, we 

 now have 140 infested cities and towns as against 124, or 2,583 

 Hpiare miles of infested territory as against 2,224, in 1905. In 

 considering these figures it should be borne in mind that the 

 inspection of 1905 was necessarily restricted to a somewhat 

 ha-ty examination of roadsides and orchards by a few trained 

 men. Since it has now been possible to make thorough examina- 

 tions lit' what may be called "sample" towns, both within and 

 without the 1905 district, we are able to deduce conclusions of 

 importance, although of a somewhat discouraging nature. It is 

 apparent that the borders of the infested territory, not definitely 

 known in r.<>;,, will not be determined until sutlicient money 

 r:i " '" -|" -in in thorough scouting operations. It is equally ap- 

 parent, from the very lar-e number of infestations found within 

 '!" border ..f the 190", district, thai the gypsy moth is much 

 """ v numerous in these towns than was suspected, and that a 

 ' 'I -"I of carefu] work \vill be rcipiiivd here. The worst of 

 'hat ihe-e somewhat extensive infestations occur in 

 vhich are poetically non-reveiiiie-yieldino' under the act, 



Sl "i- must bear ihe principal cosl of further ex- 



I'Tininative work. 



