I in: i'.i:( tw \-r All, Mo'iii. 



o„,!,i»U.!.'ly«H.v.'iv.l with llu- c-atfi-pillars. Tlieie wero about four 

 to every leaf. 'I'lioy evon strippeil our grupe-viues of 

 .ml sieins. It is of no use for one to work against 

 uiteii utliei-s will not (1<^ it too. 



\|r-. N\'. I. Cliii-i'. <|U«>t»'(l clscuhon', says: — 



The cnl«Tpiilars came in .swarni.s, stripping everything clean of 

 lenveH. 'I'he liouse was fairly black with them. T used to pour 

 k. . uu them, antl then take a pan and brush them off my 



I I. ..wd otT the house. Sometimes 1 would get two or three 



.juarts of the worms. They were a sight. You could not get out- 

 j*i»le the «loor without being poisoned by them. While the leaves 

 on tl«e trees laste«l. they let the plants alone; but when they were 

 jjoiie. lliey niv my rose bushes and other shrubs. We had no 

 fniit at all in 1«'J7. There nnist have been some of them here 

 T ;^ to that time, fur I remember seeing the nests on my 



:. ..... :s trees, and telling him if he did not cut them off be 



i^ouM have no fruit, little thinking at the time that my own trees 

 would Ik? eaten up. We had to cut two apple trees down, be- 

 e:iuj»e they were so covered with the nests. The insects have not 

 U»lhi-r»Hl us as nnich this summer. Tlu' woik we tlid last spring 

 kept them from being so luimerous. 



.Mr^. .\1. M. ( :irtli\ , nn licacon Street, Somervillo, writing 

 in October, l.s'.ts, .says: — 



We found the brown-tail moths a terrible luiisance, because tliey 



^|Kllled our fruit. We used to have a great deal of nice fruit from 



otir tn-eM, lint since the nH»tiis came the little fruit we have had 



'-*'en very poor. In is'.lT we had one tree that was just full 



of frtiit. mill it was tle.stroyed by tlie caterpillars. In years past 



we umhI to jjet from ten t<. twelve liushels of pears, and this year 



" only two bushels. One of our apple trees that has some- 



. u^ two barrels of apples this year yielded onl}' about 



The caterpillars were very nnich worse this 3'ear than 



■<"■»'• This year in the early spring we could not go 



nitoour ynnl l»ocnUKe of the caterpillars. 1 hired a man twice to 



<• liert- and «'ut the lindjs olT the trees, once in the spring and 



ri later; but in wpile of all our efforts we could not keep them 



Tlie Hw,irniin<; of the cal.r|iill:ir- a.tually injund the value 

 of n-ttl ••Ntut4- in the \vor>t-infc.stccl districts, since tenants 



