February, '14] ROGERS: MOTH QUARANTINE 117 



for the more rigid quarantine declared in notices No. 4 and No. 10, 

 which clearly define the areas from which forest products and nursery 

 stock may be shipped only when accompanied by a certificate of 

 inspection, and prohibit the movement of Christmas trees and greenery 

 grown in the territory infested with the gipsy moth to points outside 

 of it. 



The area quarantined on account of the gipsy moth includes parts 

 of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, about 

 15,230 square miles. The brown-tail area includes all the gipsy 

 moth territory and about 17,000 square miles additional affecting 

 portions of each of the New England States. 



The area quarantined was divided into fifteen sections for forest 

 product inspection, and a competent man assigned to each section.- 

 His duties were to visit the agents of all railroad, express and boat 

 companies, and the more important dealers in commodities which 

 require inspection and to instruct them regarding the movement of 

 goods affected by the quarantine, and to inspect such material before 

 shipment. 



The railroads issued a circular to their agents, copying the regula- 

 tions of the quarantine in full, with a small map attached showing 

 the areas affected, and in addition extracts from the nursery laws of 

 several states and Canada. 



The entire machinery worked promptly and effectively with almost 

 no friction and general hearty cooperation. 



Aside from the fifteen sections in which the agents of the Depart- 

 ment were looking after the movement of forest producis, a man or a 

 crew of men, as the case demanded, was assigned to the inspection of 

 stock going out from the nurseries within the quarantined area. 



Each agent of the Department has a metal badge showing that he 

 is an officer, is provided with blanks for making applications for 

 inspection and certificates to accompany shipments examined. The 

 application and certificate have corresponding serial numbers. The 

 application is returned to the office and filed so that we have a record of 

 the whole transaction. In the case of nursery stock, the tag certificate 

 issued has a serial number, and a sheet, report of inspection, shows the 

 same number and other information which we require. These sheets 

 are returned to the office and a copy is sent to the State Inspector into 

 whose state the goods are to go, so that the stock may be reexamined 

 at destination, if desired. 



A few days less than a year after the quarantine was put into opera- 

 tion, the first report of any moths having escaped the notice of our 

 inspectors was received from New York. Some of Mr. Atwood's 

 eagle-eyed inspectors found a gipsy moth egg-cluster and a brown- 



