(iVPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



They have done good work all over the city. In this neighborhood in- 

 dividual effort against the moths has been excellent. 



I have two acres of woodland on Linwood Street which last year were 

 badly eaten by the caterpillars; this year I cannot detect any sign of 

 stripping there. 



While the city laments the expenditure against the moths, we know 

 the necessity of it, and do not grudge it. 



AUG. 1, 1906. 



WILLIAM STONE, SUPERINTENDENT, PINE GROVE CEMETERY, LYNN. 



It is either trees or gypsy moths, you cannot have both. I was not 

 much troubled last year with gypsy moths in Pine Grove Cemetery, but 

 the cemetery adjoins the Lynn public woods for a good part of its line, 

 and so we were exposed to invasion by the gypsy caterpillars from three 

 sides. This year they came in on us. I made up my mind that visitors 

 to the cemetery should not go away shocked at the sight of the moths' 

 ravages. Last winter we creosoted all egg clusters possible, and this 

 spring we put burlaps on the trees, and tended them. I had pans cut 

 so as to fit the tree trunks. Equipped with these, the workmen would 

 brush the caterpillars from the burlaps into the pans, and thence into the 

 pails of kerosene. Two men worked steadily destroying moths all sum- 

 mer, and I would turn my whole force of 40 men on to the work for 

 half a day per week on an average. My men destroyed in all from 35 

 to 40 bushels of caterpillars. One man destroyed 18 bushels. To-day 

 you cannot find a tree defoliated in the cemetery. We have 60 acres, 

 with trees in plenty and variety, but the vigilant work prevented a 

 single tree from being stripped. 



As to brown-tail moths last summer, of an evening the whole sides of 

 -"rue of our buildings in the business section were white with millers. 

 Von could no more count them than you could number the stars in the 

 heavens. This year I haven't seen one miller. 



I think Mr. Doak, who had charge of the city work, has done ex- 

 cellently on the street trees. His men have sprayed to good effect, and 

 have tended their burlaps faithfully. 



An:. 1, 190(5. 



( ! KORGE E. HITCHCOCK, CITY TREASURER, MALDEN. 

 There has been in my section a very great improvement in regard to 

 the moths. Two years ago they were perhaps at their worst. My house, 

 at the comer of Glenwood and Rartlett streets, was overrun with cater- 

 pillars; they were over everything. They would come up between the 

 hoards of the pia/./a, and \ve would go out in the street with brooms 

 and crush them wholesale. 1 worked by night and by day, and so did 

 others. Nearly everybody worked with might and main. This year I 

 have not seen one caterpillar on my house. T believe the good condition 



