150 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



brown-tail moths, recommending remedies, and recording the 

 presence of the former within the state. 10,000 copies were 

 printed and distributed in March. Life history sets of these 

 insects were prepared and placed in drug store windows, in a 

 few libraries and other public places. 



Placards giving illustrations and brief descriptions of the 

 gypsy moth were also printed, and sent to each public library 

 in the state. Circular letters were mailed to the school boards 

 of all the towns, offering to furnish a limited number of these 

 placards to the schools of each town on condition that the 

 authorities distribute them. About fifty-six per cent, of the 

 towns replied agreeing to do this, and nearly two thousand 

 have been supplied to the schools. 



In May the Station Report was issued, and this included 

 the gypsy moth portion of the bulletin, considerably revised and 

 elaborated. 



On Nov. 26th a lecture was given in the town hall, Stoning- 

 ton, and the local work fully explained and illustrated by over 

 fifty lantern slides. Talks have been given at about a dozen 

 other places in various parts of the state, and on each occasion 

 specimens have been shown to the people. 



FORCE EMPLOYED. 



Men were employed continuously on the work at Stonington 

 from June 7th to September ist. My assistant, Mr. Walden, 

 was in charge from June i8th to July ist, after which Mr. J. A. 

 Hyslop of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, superin- 

 tended the work until the first of September, when it was 

 stopped on account of making the annual inspection of nurs- 

 eries, as required by law. During June and the first half of 

 July more help was needed, and ten men were employed in 

 trapping caterpillars, two being residents of Stonington ; the 

 others were sent out from New Haven. During August five 

 or six Stonington laborers were kept at work cutting brush. 

 On November i6th the work was resumed with a force of five 

 men, Mr. G. H. Hollister, a graduate of the Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural College at Storrs, being in charge. 



LOCAL ASSISTANCE. 



The selectmen took an interest in the work, and aided it by 

 employing men to cut the brush along the highways through 



