28 THE GYPSY MOTH. 



The greatest danger of an increase and spread of the moth 

 lies now in the Middlesex Fells region, adjoining Medford 

 and Melrose. Careful and thorough work should be done 

 there as soon as possible. 



Winchester. 



The moths were early found to be scattered throughout 

 the Winchester village, and a later inspection showed that 

 they had penetrated into the woods, not only in the south- 

 eastern section, near the Middlesex Fells, but also in the 

 western portion of the town, lying near Woburn and Lex- 

 ington and north of western Arlington. This woodland is 



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a portion of one of the badly infested wooded localities 

 reported a year ago to the Legislature, with an urgent 

 recommendation that sufficient money be appropriated to 

 make it possible to prosecute actively the work of extermina- 

 tion therein. Careful work has been done in the western 

 Winchester woods, with the result that very few moths are 

 now found there. The work should be followed up during 

 the winter by such cutting and burning as is necessary and 

 can be done to advantage, and the remaining eggs should be 

 destroyed before the coming spring. There has been a 

 great improvement in the condition of Winchester the past 

 year, and little has been found in the centre of the town 

 during the past two years, although several bad colonies 

 were formerly known there. 



Arlington . 



In 1891 a few of the worst infested localities in the region 

 were found in Arlington, the woodland being infested, as 

 as well as the open and cultivated land. The moths were 

 found scattered throughout the town. Since that time they 

 have been almost entirely cleared from the eastern part, but 

 in the' woodland adjoining Lexington and Winchester there 

 remains considerable work to be done. An advance, how- 

 ever, has been made there from year to year. 



Belmont. 



Belniont was one of the towns found infested by the first 

 Gypsy Moth Commission in 1890. The first work done un- 



