REPORT OF FIELD AGENT, GYPSY MOTH WORK. 



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PRESENT EXTENT OF INFESTED AREA. 



The total number of infested towns a year ago was 66. In 

 addition to these, nineteen more infested towns have been found 

 during 1912. The total list of infested towns to Jan. ist, 1913 

 is as follows : 



The total number of towns known to be infested with the 

 Gipsy moth is at present, eighty-five. This area comprises ter- 

 ritory in seven counties. A straight line drawn on a map of 

 Maine from Damariscotta to Augusta and from there west 

 to Fryeburg represents approximately the present northern 

 border of infested territory. The entire area south of these 

 two lines is infested with the Gipsy moth and it is very likely 

 that the limit has not been reached. 



That branch of our work which consists of scouting new 

 towns along the border of infested territory has been conducted 

 by the United States Government force. There has been during 

 the past year and is at present a force of about forty men 

 working under the direction of the government in an effort to 

 prevent further spread by the moth into the interior of the 

 State. 



