February, '10] 



ATWOOD : BROWN-TAIL MOTH 



75 



NUMBER OF SHIPMENTS AND BOXES REPORTED BY THIS DEPARTMENT TO OTHER STATES 



No. Of 

 shipments. 



No. of 

 boxes. 



No. of 

 shipments. 



No. of 

 boxes. 



Alabama 



California 



Colorado 



Connecticut ... 



Georgia 



Idaho 



Illinois 



Indiana 



Iowa 



Kansas 



Kentucky 



Louisiana 



Maryland 



Massachusetts 



Michigan 



Minnesota.. .. 



Mississippi 



Missouri 



Montana 



209 and 

 28 pekgs. 

 2 



Nebraska 



New Hampshire. ... 



New Jersey 



New Mexico 



North Carolina 



Ohio 



Oregon 



Pennsylvania 



Rhode Island 



South Dakota 



Tennessee 



Texas 



Vermont 



Virginia 



Washington 



West Virginia 



Wisconsin 



Canada 



Washington, D. C .. . 



4 

 1 

 111 

 1 

 1 



56 

 2 



56 



16 

 1 

 4 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 4 

 2 

 5 



28 

 3 



9 



1 



3842 and 

 125 tubs 



4 



284 and 

 12 tubs 

 2 



494 and 

 6 tubs 

 65 



7 



11 



11 



2 

 13 

 3 



15 



212 



9 



6677 

 Pkgs. 283 



3998 boxes 229 bales 



Boxes burned, 707. Bales burned, 2. 



NEW YORK 



Number of shipments, 860. 

 33 bundles 



185 tubs 



7,000 nests destroyed. 



121 baskets 

 Total, 4566 



We are nearly all of us under obligations to Doctor Howard for 

 reports on shipments of imported stock. If the importations this 

 winter prove to be free or partly free from brown-tails it will be largely 

 the result of his visit to the entomologists in France. 



No brown-tails were found on any stock except that grown in 

 France. 



We have inspected this fall hundreds of shipments from Germany, 

 England and Holland and a very few from France and no pests have 

 been reported. The bulk of stock used by our nurserymen for bud- 

 ding come from France, and most of it is received in the first three 

 months of the year. 



We are seemingly as ready for the work as is possible and shall 



