2l6 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



FIELD DAY. 



The first annual field day of the force was held at Kittery ou 

 September 24 and was a great success. Many visitors were 

 present from Alaine^ New Hampshire and Massachusetts. 

 All pronounced it the best affair ever held by gipsy moth 

 workers. 



In addition to the towns reported the following towns have 

 been scouted and no signs of the gipsy moth found, viz. : Bidde- 

 ford, Saco, Scarboro, Cape Elizabeth, South Portland, Portland, 

 Westbrook, Gorham, Buxton, Lyman, Alfred, Fryeburg, Brown.- 

 field, Porter, Parsonsfield, Old Orchard. The towns of Dayton, 

 Shapleigh, Limerick and Waterboro will be scouted as soon as 

 the snow will permit. 



Providing the legislature makes another appropriation the 

 work of 1909 will include holding the ground we have gained in 

 the different towns and the scouting of the woodlands as far 

 as possible along the New Hampshire border from Fryeburg to 

 Berwick. The season of 1909 will require much more spraying, 

 a method which in favorable weather cannot fail to give the best 

 of results. The next season will see a general use of sticky 

 bands on trees in the woodlands and where it has been impos- 

 sible to clear the ground, rocks and ledges of the egg clusters. 

 In the field operations it has of course been necessary to organ- 

 ize the forces; and with the experience gained in 1907 and 1908 

 there will be greater confidence in our ability to handle the work 

 to better advantage in the years to come. 



E. E. PHILBROOK, 



Special Field Agent. 



