KEPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 69 



The scouting operations which were begun in the fall of 1909 

 were carried on until Alay, 19 10, 75 trained men being employed 

 for this work. During May and June spraying operations were 

 carried on with excellent results. Ten and one-half tons of ar- 

 senate of lead were used in this work and millions of caterpil- 

 lars were destroyed. 



Owing to the bad poisoning received from the brown-tail moth 

 under the burlaps last year, I waited until the brown-tail moth 

 had pupated before allowing the men to begin putting on bur- 

 laps this year, which was July ist. Eighty-five thousand trees 

 were burlapped and carefully attended during the months of July 

 and August. One hundred eighty-five thousand eighty-six cat- 

 erpillars were taken from the burlaps and destroyed. Nine and 

 one-half bales of burlap were used in this work. Thousands of 

 caterpillars were destroyed by fi.re in the burning operations on 

 the ground and in stone walls. Six barrels of crude oil were 

 used in the work. Considerable cutting, cleaning, thinning tree 

 tops, pruning, tin patching and scraping of trees in orchards and 

 woodlands was done during the months of January, February, 

 and ]\Iarch. 



Owing to the shortage of funds wc were obliged to stop work 

 the latter part of August. In October the work of scouting was 

 again taken up and is now being carried on by the government. 

 During the scouting operations, 53,894 egg clusters were found 

 and creosoted. If these egg clusters had been allowed to hatch 

 they would, without any doubt, have brought forth 20,000,000 

 caterpillars. 



The following new towns have been scouted and found to be 

 quite badly infested, viz : Parsonsfield, Lyman, Standish, Port- 

 land, \\'estbrook, Buxton. Cape Elizabeth, Old Orchard and 

 SoutHTortland. 



The following list shows the towns now infested with the gyp- 

 sy moth in York and Cumberland Counties, total 30 : Kittery, 

 York, Eliot, Wells, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Portland, 

 Westbrook, Buxton, Cape Elizabeth. Old Orchard, Biddeford, 

 Saco, Scarboro, South Portland, Gorham, Standish, Dayton, 

 South Berwick, North Berwick, Acton, Parsonsfield, Water- 

 boro, Shapleigh, Berwick, Lebanon, Newfield, .'■^anford, Lyman, 

 Alfred. 



