REPORT OF STATE HORTICULTURIST. 8l 



moth. My attention has been called to this belief a great many 

 times this fall. It is no such thing; it is simply the people 

 themselves who are learning more about the gypsy moth. We 

 made it a rule to teach the people all about this interesting 

 creature, showed them where to look and how to control 

 them, with the result that the people now can discern them at 

 a glance, whereby, previous to this teaching, they paid little or 

 no attention, whatever, to the moth. It is their own knowledge 

 of the moth and its habits that now happily enables them to see 

 a few. where before they could not see thousands. 



I would like to impress upon those who have suffered from 

 the ravages of this pest, the necessity of appearing before the 

 next legislature, and use their every efifort to get an appro- 

 priation of not less than $50,000, annually. 



The following cities and towns were inspected by crews the 

 past year and the number of moths destroyed in each was as 

 follows : 



Alna 12,819 Lebanon 5.911 



Auburn 710 Scarboro 1,217 



Bath 2,929 Saco 2,010 



Berwick 13,140 Sanford 230,746 



North Berwick 19.864 Westbrook 46,323 



South Berwick 19,450 Woolwich 30,190 



Cape Elizabeth 359 Windham 9,235 



Gardiner 222 Lewiston 437 



Hallowell 2 Augusta 13 



Nobleboro 371 Kennebunkport 7,587 



Portland 3,51? Lisbon Falls 37 



South Portland 13,663 Peaks Island 2,312 



Kennebunk 7,056 Long Island 29 



Richville 14.171 



Total egg-clusters destroyed, 374.807. 



