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pupated I began putting on burlaps. These burlaps were very 

 carefully attended by the men during the caterpillar season. 

 102,000 trees were burlapped and 978,000 caterpillars were 

 taken from under the burlap bands and destroyed. Alany cat- 

 erpillars were destroyed by the iburning of stone walls and 

 rock piles. Forest fires in the towns of York, Kittery, Eliot 

 and Wells have destroyed many thousand caterpillars. 



Owing to lack of funds the work stopped on August 25, and 

 the men were given a vacation until Octoiber 15, when the 

 scouting work was again taken up and continued and is now 

 being carried on. During the scouting operations 903,173 egg 

 clusters were found and destroyed in the towns of Kittery. 

 York, Eliot, South Berwick, Wells, Kennebunk, San ford. 

 Portland, South Portland. Westbrook, Brunswick and Oxford. 

 In this work 400 gallons of creosote were used in painting the 

 egg clusters. 



The state has added to its field equipment this year a high 

 power spraying machine. With this machine results have 

 been very gratifying in the towns of Kittery. Eliot and South 

 Berwick, where it was used during the year. At the present 

 time, York, Wells, Kennebunk and Saco have power spraying 

 machines which take care of the post road from Kittery to 

 Scarboro by spraying, and never in the history of the work 

 against the gypsy and brown-tail moth have the trees along the 

 highway or post road been in such good condition as at the 

 present time. Sanford, Yarmouth and Auburn also have power 

 machines which are being used to good advantage and without 

 any doubt a great many more towns will purchase machines 

 this coming year. 



The following list shows the towns now infested with the 

 gypsy moth: Total, 171 towns. 



Androscoggin County. 



