136 GYPSY AND BROAVN-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



MASSACHUSETTS HIGHWAY COMMISSION, BOSTON, Jan. 30, 1907. 



.Mr. A. H. KIRKLAND, Superintendent for Suppressing ihe Gypsy and 

 Brown-tail Moths, 6 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 



DEAR SIR: --In response to your request for a statement as to what 

 was done last year by the Massachusetts Highway Commission in sup- 

 pressing the gypsy and brown-tail moths on the State highway trees, 

 I am directed by the commission to state that, acting under the advice 

 which you were good enough to give the Board from time to time, the 

 trees on the State highways in the cities and towns shown in the attached 

 list were cared for. The expense of the work in each municipality is 

 set opposite the name of the place. A total sum of $7,337.07 was ex- 

 pended between Dec. 1, 1905, and Jan. 1, 1907. 



In most of the towns the work was done by the local men, who were 

 paid per diem rates for their services, as well as for the services of the 

 laborers whom they employed to assist them, but a considerable portion 

 of the work was done by contract with firms of contractors who make a 

 specialty of tree work. It is believed that the Avork was done thor- 

 oughly, but that its cost was somewhat greater per unit than it should 

 have been. The commissioners hope that, under the agreement recently 

 made between the Board and yourself, the cost may be lessened. This 

 agreement provides that you shall direct the work on the State high- 

 way trees as you do in other places, make contracts and employ the 

 men, and that, after approving the bills, you shall send them to the 

 commission. 



Respectfully, A. B. FLETCHER, 



Secretary, 



Acton, $11 10 



Amesbury, 66 10 



Andover, 60 00 



Andover, Reading, North Reading, Stoneham, . . . 836 50 



Bedford, 2 54 



Beverly, 0:29 50 



Boxborough, .......... 1 60 



Brewster, 9 92 



Burlington, Woburn, Winchester, 1.1(11 00 



Chelmsford, 20 00 



Cohasset, 48 89 



Cohasset, Weymouth, Hingham, Quincy '_!:!."> 00 



Concord, 182 02 



Dracut, . 5 00 



Gloucester, 204 50 



Groveland, 167 00 



Hamilton. ... ... 245 64 



