Il8 AGRlCULTURIi OF MAINE. 



Woolwich and Yarmouth, while two colonies were placed in 

 each of the following: Cornish, Limerick, Limington and Par- 

 sonsfield. 



While the beetles were being colonized, collections of gypsy 

 moth larvae were being made from some of the towns located 

 south of this city where Compsilura had been present in previ- 

 ous years. It was apparent very soon that we were not going 

 to get a very large number of the above named parasite from 

 these collections, especially as the wilt was killing a large per- 

 centage of the larvae. The collections were continued, how- 

 ever, on the chance that some of them might give good results, 

 but we were finally forced to discontinue this line of work as 

 the season became too far advanced to make any more collec- 

 tions advisable. 



The following is a detailed report of the results of our Comp- 

 silura work : 



In addition to the number of Compsilura listed above, we re- 

 ceived from the United States Laboratory two colonies of five 

 hundred each. 



The above three lots of Compsilura have been or will be 

 colonized in Jay, Oakland and Knox. 



This completes the report on the work for the past summer. 

 It might have been possible to obtain more Compsilura if the 

 work had been continued for two or three weeks more, as this 

 parasite began to appear in more satisfactory numbers toward 

 the end, but I do not believe that a continuance would have 

 been advisable, in view of the fact that the men in other 

 branches of the work were going to be laid ofif on August 15 

 and, besides, I had entirely too many men here for the amount 

 of work on hand and it would b^ rather unfair to keep some 

 of them and terminate the employment of the others. 



