->> (JVPSV AND BKOWN-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



tail webs, Hindi lidp was gained by the general cutting of 

 hollow. diseased and worthless trees and of brush which served 

 .idini: places i'r the moths. It was not possible to have a 

 ir.-n. -ral dcaniiiir up of all estates in the residential district, but 

 thrre has been a most satisfactory beginning along this line. 

 Manv property owners, being unable to attend personally to the 



oils "f tin.' winter work, employed contractors; while others 

 preferred to have the work done by the local forces, to be later 

 paid for in the form of direct taxes. 



Following the winter work, a great deal of banding of trees 

 with sticky material <>r with burlap was done. By the time the 

 bands were on, the spraying season opened; and in all towns 

 which could be induced to purchase suitable apparatus, great 

 miin was made in reducing the numbers of the moths by this 



ana. The results of this general co-operative campaign against 

 tin- moths, involving, as it did, a force of upward of 1,200 em- 

 ployees and the assistance of many thousands of property owners, 

 wen- apparent as the caterpillar season reached its height. For 

 the lirst time in several years the citizens of our principal resi- 

 dential distrirts passed through the summer without notable 

 ; ( uiiovaiice from the caterpillar pest, or without serious injury 



heir property. There were, of course, cases here and there 

 in the district where the work had been neglected or poorly done 

 and where small outbreaks developed; but by far the large 

 majoritv of our riti/.eiis received the protection from caterpillar 

 announce and injury which they had anticipated, - - a result 

 ino.-t -ratit'yini:, and promising well for the future. It is not 

 too much to say that, with the thorough testing which the present 

 law against the moths has received, it is apparent that it provides 

 an etl'ectivc means for brin-'in^ the insects under control wherever 

 neral cooperation can be secured. 



While as al.ove slated the ivnilis in the fields in which we have 

 1 are all that could he de-ired, we are obliged to report with 



ret that in the woodlands, which perforce were practically 

 in- diirinn- the season, the insects made gains. Several 



thousand- of acre- of low cost w ..... Hand were stripped by the cat- 

 erpillar-. and a notahle e.\ien>ioii of area took place in nearly all 

 the v.oodland coloni.-s. This is a matter which will be more fllllv 



