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tations in the upper part of the city and without any doubt the 

 government crew will find them when they scout this winter. 

 The conditions of the city warrant a hard fight to stay the spread 

 of the moth and to exterminate the infestation already found. 



SCARBORO, 



Last year in scouting but one infestation was found in this 

 town. This was carefully attended during the summer months. 

 While doing this work 6 more infestations were found which 

 were attended, and from all 35 caterpillars taken. The govern- 

 ment crew is now scouting the town. This is a large town and 

 contains a great deal of woodland which will require a great 

 deal of work and money to handle. The railroad infestations 

 found here during the winter have not developed any caterpil- 

 lars and it is safe to say that they are exterminate^!, 



SOUTH PORTLAND. 



While scouting the town in the early part of the year two 

 infestations were found near the golf grounds and while attend- 

 ing to these during the summer months two more were found 

 close by. The trees were burlapped and attended carefully, 

 which resulted in finding 235 of the caterpillars. ■ Scouting de- 

 veloped 31 ^gg clusters. 



These infestations are all on the Post road on Main Street 

 and are liable to be carried some distance as the owner of the 

 worst infestation is a truck gardener and drives to the city of 

 Portland each day with his goods. I certainly look for new in- 

 festations to develop from this one by these means. 



GORHAM. 



The scouting of last fall revealed for the first time in this 

 town, one egg cluster. During the summer months this infes- 

 tation was visited and i caterpillar was found. During the 

 scouting this fall 65 egg clusters were found and destroyed. 

 These new infestations are located in every part of the town 

 and much work will be required to properly handle same. The 

 fall scouting was done by the government crew. 



