GYPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



X,,rili Andover. Salisbury. Watertown. 



North Reading. Sau-us. Wayland. 



N,,r\vell. Sandwich. AYellesley. 



X..r\v,.od. Si-ituate. Wenham. 



Orleans. Sherborn. YYestborougb. 



l-.-.-ibiMly. Somerville. West Bridgewater. 



IVml.rokc. Sontbborougb. \\Ystford. 



Plymouth. Stoneham. West Xewbury. 



Plympt.m. St.m-hton. \Yeston. 



< hiiin-y. Stow. Westwood. 



,l,lph. Sudlmry. Weymouth. 



K'aynliam. Swampscott. Whitman. 



K, . ;il l m i:. Tewksbury. Wilmington. 



Revere. Topsfield. Winchester. 



Kurkland. Tyngsborough. Winthrop. 



Rock port. Wakefield. YYoburn. 



Rowley. Waltham. Yarmouth. 



Salem. YYareham. 



CONDITION OF INFESTED DISTRICT. 



A description of the infested district gives opportunity for a 

 natural division between the central and the outer towns and 

 cities. By the "central towns " are meant those comprising 

 the principal, central, badly infested district, which includes all 

 those cities and towns known to be infested in 1899, with a 

 MI extension of tin- border as the gypsy moth spread outward. 

 In all these towns the street trees and residential districts are 

 vvnerally infested, although the numbers of the moths have 

 l.een L; really reduced. The woodlands in these towns are in a 

 very .-erious condition, and hero the principal stripping took 

 place in tin- -iiinmer of 1905. 



The term " outer towns " includes those lying outside of this 

 liadlv infe-ied central di>trict. Here the infestation varies in 







point .if -evenly frmn those towns where small gypsy moth 

 e..].i!iie- may l.e located on nearly every si reel and in all the 

 principal \\.>odland<, to the border towns where diligent search by 

 trained men wa- re<|iiired to determine the presence of the 

 moth. 



I n the case of each town the name of the local official in charge 

 "I tin- \\ork is given, although in a few places the responsibility 



