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On account of the deep snow, work was abandoned for the 

 time being. In the meantime some of our men who had been 

 employed on the brown-tail work were sent to Massachusetts to 

 learn the business. After being in Mr. Rogers' employ for a 

 sufficient time he returned them to Maine and had them scout 

 the principal cities east of Portland, viz. Ellsworth, Bangor, 

 Waterville, Augusta, Hallowell, Gardiner, Bath, Rockland and 

 Brunswick. At this time work was discontinued on account of 

 snow. 



On the 4th of April, 1907 the government scouts again 

 returned and took up the scout at Biddeford where they left off 

 in January, and continued into Portland. They finished work 

 on the loth of May and returned to Massachusetts. Although 

 very thorough work was done no egg-clusters were found out- 

 side of Kennebunkport by the government scouts with the 

 exception of one found at Togus in December. 



On April i6th our State men began to rescout the territory 

 gone over by the government men. This was done to guard 

 against the possibility of infestations being left undiscovered as 

 the snow had materially hindered the men from making a satis- 

 factory scout especially in stone walls and around the trunks of 

 trees where the snow was deep. 



The new scout proved very successful as many new infesta- 

 tions were found. The towns of Berwick, North Berwick and 

 South Berwick were included in the spring scout, but only one 

 egg-cluster was found in the Berwicks and that was in South 

 Berwick on Academy street. By this scout 432 new egg-clusters 

 were found making a total of 926 up to the first of June. 



SCOUTING IN THE FALL OF 1907. 

 On October 14th Mr. Rogers sent fifteen scouts from Massa- 

 chusetts. These men were turned over to the State Field Agent 

 and were divided into three squads, each under the charge of 

 one of our field men. At this time we had nine State men in 

 the work. 



• As soon as the Thaxter infestation was discovered on Novem- 

 ber I St arrangements were made with Mr. Rogers to send more 

 men. These men were sent from time to time as they could be 

 secured and others were added from our state until thirty men 

 were on the government pay roll. Of this number nearly one- 



