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found and it is safe to report this infestation as being entirely 

 exterminated. This is very important, for if this infestation 

 were allowed to increase and spread it would be but a short 

 time before the moths would migrate to the great woods of the 

 State and do untold damage. This infestation should be 

 watched very carefully for a few years yet. 



CONCI^USION. 



You will sec by this report that we have gained 9 new towns 

 as infested. This is due to the fact of a short appropriation 

 and it was impossible to get into these towns to scout same 

 with the money at hand. The government has done most of 

 the scouting this fall and it will be very necessary to go over 

 the towns again this winter and spring to look over woodlands 

 and orchards which were passed by the government crews. 

 Unless the coming Legislature makes a suitable appropriation 

 for the work it will go beyond our power and the State will 

 have the same condition confronting it as now exists in Massa- 

 chusetts and New Hampshire. 



E. E. PHILBROOK, 



Special Field Agent. 



