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The trees were burlapped and carefully attended during the 

 season ; 265 caterpillars were taken and destroyed. 



The town was thoroughly scouted in the early part of the 

 year and 117 egg clusters found and destroyed. No fall scout- 

 ing has been done yet. The town will be scouted by the govern- 

 ment crew later. 



KENNEBUNKPORT. 



The work in this town has been attended to with care but, in 

 spite of this, the infestations have increased this year, many new 

 infestations along the highway being found this fall while scout- 

 ing. This indicates that caterpillars are being brought from 

 some other towns or possibly from New Hampshire on automo- 

 biles. The Post road through New Hampshire, over which 

 most of the machines come, is very badly infested and without 

 any doubt caterpillars are brought on same to the towns along 

 the coast between Kittery and Portland, and possibly farther 

 east. 



The scouting operations resulted in finding 172 egg clusters, 

 which were destroyed. 



The trees in town were burlapped and carefully attended dur- 

 ing the summer months. 124 caterpillars were taken and de- 

 stroyed. 



BIDDEFORD. 



Previous to the year 1910 only one egg cluster was found in 

 this town, but, while attending this infestation during the sum- 

 mer, five more infestations were found. They are situated in 

 different parts of the city and it will require considerable work 

 to properly handle same. 



The trees were burlapped and attended during the summer, 

 which resulted in finding 72 caterpillars. 



The government crew is now scouting the city and without 

 doubt will find other infestations. 



SACO. 



* 

 This city has not shown much during the summer months. 

 The four infestations have been looked after carefully, but only 

 3 caterpillars were found. I fear that there are more infes- 



