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by foremen, general foremen and an executive from New England. 

 About one-third are New Jersey men, who are learning the work of 

 scouting for the egg masses. Arrangements have been made to purchase 

 eleven new high powered truck mounted sprayers for use during the 

 coming spring. 



For the protection of other parts of the state and of other sections of 

 the United States, the entire Somerville area has been included in a 

 quarantine, which covers something like 200 square miles, and this 

 quarantine is being administered in conformance to the plan governing 

 the same sort of work in New England, and is being endorsed by Mr. 

 Ames and the group under him. Furthermore every point at which 

 infestation has been found has been placed under a similar quarantine, 

 which is being conducted in the same way. While these quarantines 

 are intrastate in character, by reason of the source from which they came, 

 they are operating also as interstate quarantines. 



Thus it appears that the New Jersey infestation of the gipsy moth is 

 being attacked upon an exterminative basis and that a determined 

 and well considered effort is being made to prevent infestation passing 

 from the areas already infested into uninfested portions of New Jersey 

 and into other states. This problem would not have been attacked on 

 an exterminative basis, were it not for the fact that the New Jersey 

 authorities were assured by Mr. Burgess and his aids, after they had been 

 carefully over the territory, that extermination was entirely a practicable 

 matter. 



In all this effort against the gipsy m_oth, the Japanese beetle has not 

 been forgotten, and it is expected that the Laboratory working for the 

 control of this insect will be adequately supported by the United States 

 Government and the States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 



The discovery of an injurious insect, such as the gipsy moth, within 

 the limits of any state does not, it seems to the writer, constitute a 

 justifiable basis for criticism of the force operating in that state; but 

 rather should be taken as an evidence of activity on the part of that force. 

 Such a discovery becomes a justifiable basis for criticism only when the 

 inspection force is adequate to meet the situation, and there are few 

 inspection forces in any of the states in this country which are adequate. 

 Something like six or seven years ago the writer proposed, at a public 

 meeting of the New Jersey State Department of Agriculture, the appro- 

 priation of funds to institute and to support an insect scouting and sur- 

 vey service with the idea that the large estates of New Jersey should 

 be combed and that any other danger points should be very carefully 

 examined. This suggestion received little attention and came to naught 

 as has been the fate of other efforts of a similar kind in other parts of this 



