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Mr. Fracker: I do not know of any state in which the nursery 

 inspector is appoi.'^^d for any specific period. 



Chairman Ruggli^s: The next paper is by T. J. Headlee. 



PRESENT STATUS OF THE GIPSY MOTH IN NEW JERSEY^ 



By Thomas J Headlee, Ph.D., State Entomologist, New Brunswick, N. J. 



The speaker can offer as his only excuse for presenting this paper the 

 fact that the attempt to exterminate the present gipsy moth infestation 

 in New Jersey constitutes one of the largest efforts of this kind that has 

 ever been carried out within the limits of the United States. He has 

 attempted to put himself in the place of an entomologist, whose field 

 of endeavor lies in a state far removed from gipsy moth infestation, 

 and to see whether he would, under those conditions, Hke to know how 

 things are coming on in the effort now being made in New Jersey. It 

 is on the basis of the answer to this question that he has felt that a state- 

 ment of the situation might meet the wishes of the entomologists here 

 assembled today. 



At the close of the dormant season of 1920-1921 the one hundred 

 square mile area reported in the paper entitled "The present status 

 of the gypsy moth in New Jersey" and read before the last annual 

 meeting of this association, had expanded to an area of approximately 

 four hundred and ten square miles. Since that time, although the 

 scouting has gone on through the fall and early winter and has covered 

 approximately 38 percent of the original four hundred and ten square 

 mile area, plus its four hundred and ninety square mile safety border, 

 only one additional township has been found infested, and it can be said 

 that with our present knowledge the area (410 square miles) known last 

 spring has not been materially increased by the scouting. 



The work against the gipsy moth up to July 1, 1921 had cost $254,- 

 000.00, out of which about $82,000.00 was expended for a more or less 

 permanent equipment of spraying machinery and hose. Of this siun the 

 state of New Jersey furnished $112,000.00, Mr. J. B-. Duke $25,000.00 

 and the United States Government $117,000.00. 



'For the information of persons who may not be familiar with a paper of the same 

 title read before the Annual Meeting in the year 1920-1921, the writer desires to say 

 that the gipsy moth fighting force in New Jersey is officered by experienced gipsy 

 moth men drawn from New England, that Mr. H. A. Ames is in immediate charge 

 of the work in New Jersey but that his work is done under the direction of Mr. H. L. 

 Mclntyre, who is in charge of the field work against the gipsy moth throughout the 

 United States. 



