;, 1 GYPSY AND 1WOWX-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



cleanii-: the .-treet tree- in re-idential sections, hut the gypsy 

 in. .ill \viM,(ll;iiiil problem is distinctly worse than heretofore. 

 I>uring tin- early part of tin- year then- was a quite general en- 

 forcement of the provi.-ions of the law as applied to private 

 itea The use of the Inn-lap on ,-tivet trees gave generally 

 :\ P --nits while spraying operations were notably 

 effective. It is appan-nt to one familiar with the conditions of 

 this town that a large amount of burlapping and spraying must 

 l.e done heiv in 1907, if a gain is to be made again-t the moth 

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The work again>t the moths has been well supported by the 

 local town otlicials and has been well admini-tered. Particu- 

 larly commendable is the effort made by the local authorities 

 t.- thin the tree- along the border of the very badly infested 

 section at Greenwood, which adjoins the western division of the 

 1 toeton A- Maine Railroad. 



WALTHAM. 



RICHARD A. JONES, Superintendent of Streets. 



I >uring the early part of the year the residential section of 

 the city was cleared of both gypsy and brown-tail moth ne-i-, 

 and work wa- also prosecuted at Prospect Hill park and in the 

 h;i^e woodland colony in the easterly part of the city. In the 

 latter infe-ted district upwards of 20 acres of woodland and 

 pa-iure were cut over and burned, in co-operation with the efforts 

 of the owner, and the condition here at the present writing is 

 much improved over that of 1 !)<>.">. A great deal of work was 

 al-o done along infe-ted road-ide- in the ea-tern part of the 

 city. 



Tin-re wa- not a snllicient amount of burlapping done in 

 Waltham during the .-iimnier. but the burlaps u-ed <>n YYaltham 

 < '"iniiioii and a few oilier particularly badly infe-ted places in 

 the city were Hitlicieiil to deinonsti-atc the occurrence of the 

 moth in con-idcrablc niimbi-r.-. There was also a limited 

 amount of -praying done in the nio-i badly inflated spots, 

 \\ith go..d results. While the in-eci- were in the pupal stage a 

 general in.-peciioii of the entire r>ident ial -ectioii was made, 

 and thoiir-aiid- of pupa- de-iroved by means of wire brushes, 

 thn rially reducing the numbers of nestfi that would other- 



