lii (iYPSY AND HKOWN-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



\V ..... Is .luring the next f\v.. years, tin- major part of the park will 

 l.r irretrievably ruined. There is no section in the whole in- 

 fe-ted district more badly ;m<l generally infested than the Lynn 

 Woods. and heroic mea Hires will be necessary if any part of 

 tin- reservation is to be preserved. 



Too high praise cannot be given to the spirit of co-operation 

 shown hv His llon.,1- the mayor and the city government in 

 providing the funds for the commencing of this important work : 

 and the same is tonally true of the etlicient and businesslike 

 administration ^iven the city by the local superintendent. 



HKM;Y LA\V, Local Superintendent. 



Dnrinir the earlv part of the year the local superintendent 

 coiiiinni'd the work of clearing private estates from the moths, 

 completing the same in re-idential sections before the hatching 

 son. Marly in May a large tract, where infested wood had 

 1..-.-H cut the previous year, was burned over, and some 60 acres 

 of gyp*y moth int'e~tation done away with, the cost of burning 

 1" in- but .tl.:l<) per acre. All the street trees in the town were 

 bin-lapped and attended dnriiiLr the caterpillar season, while 

 considerable spraying was done in the southern part, with good 

 results. Following the caterpillar season, the local superin- 

 tendent commenced cutting or thinning infested trees and brush 

 in the southern part of the town, near the cemetery road. Some 

 x acres of woodland, very badly infested, have been entirely cut 

 over, and 1 :.' acres have been thinned out and put in condition 

 lor ^praying. The ground here will be burned in the spring 

 as .- ..... i ;i- the caterpillars appear. 



The \\ork of cutting out infested roadsides has been prosecuted 

 during the fall so far as funds would permit. While we have 

 .succeeded in kci pin- the s|,vet trees, and also the major part 

 of the residential district dear of the moths, the woodlands re- 

 main very seriously infested by the gypsy moth. To treat them 

 will recpiire more money than i> no\v available; but effort will 

 be made to isolate these colonies BO as to prevent the cater- 

 pillars from reaching the protected borders of the streets. It i- 

 apparent that in the course of a few years a very large part of 



