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Mr. Weiss investigated his phase of the problem and furnished to 

 Mr. Burgess as complete a list as could be secured of the business done. 

 It should be understood at this point that the Duke Farms Company- 

 is not essentially a nursery concern; but constitutes the management 

 of the personal estate of Mr. James B. Duke, developed for his pleasure 

 and that of the public. The trees in the plantings were set close to- 

 gether, in order that in spite of natural losses there should still remain 

 an adequate stand. As a matter of fact the stand proved more than 

 adequate, and as the trees grew it became necessary to remove a con- 

 siderable number from time to time and plant them elsewhere on the estate, 

 bum them up or sell them. The first and third types of action were 

 adopted by the Duke Farms Company and in 1913 they applied to the 

 New Jersey Inspection Force for a ceftificate permitting them to ship. 



Mr. Weiss procured apparently a list of the shipments of surplus stock 

 that had been m_ade and turned that portion of the list which was 

 concerned with shipments outside of the state to Mr. Burgess for further 

 action. Mr. Burgess then, furnished the officials of the various states 

 with a list of the shipments that had gone into their states. In such 

 states as did not have the men to follow up these shipments he sent his 

 own scouts. Mr. Burgess further furnished some of the personnel of 

 the force which scouted the points to which shipments from the Duke 

 Farms Company had gone intrastate. In the course of the scouting of 

 sections to which shipments had gone intrastate slight and recent infesta- 

 tions were found at Glen Rock, Wyckoff, Paterson, Elizabeth, South 

 Orange, Mendham, Scotch Plains and Deal Beach. The egg masses 

 in these outlying points ranged from one to nearly eight hundred. In all 

 cases where egg masses were found in the outlying districts by the scouts 

 they were treated with creosote. 



At the writer's request Mr. Burgess called a meeting in New York 

 on August 24th (before the Glen Rock, Paterson, Scotch Plains and 

 Mendham infestations had been found) to which were invited Mr. J. G. 

 Sanders of Pennsylvania, Mr. George G. Atwood of New York, Mr. 

 Weiss of the New Jersey State Department of Agriculture and the 

 writer. The writer took occasion to invite the Secretary of the New 

 Jersey Department of Agriculture, Mr. Alva Agee, and the Director 

 of the New Jersey State Department of Conservation and Development, 

 Mr. Alfred Gaskill. At this conference an estimate of the funds needed 

 to combat the gipsy m.oth infestations in New Jersey, New York and 

 Pennsylvania on an exterm.inative basis was considered. Mr. Sanders 

 reported that he had destroyed the infestation, root and branch, on the 

 Schwab estate and that in all probability no funds, other than those 

 provided by the State, would be needed in Pennsylvania. Mr. Atwood's 



