April, '22] headlee: gipsy moth in new jersey 171 



Table Showing Egg Masses Found in 1920-1921 and in 1921-1922 



General Area 



Place 1920-1921 1921-1922 



Dukes Park, 1100 acres 3,000,000 51 



Plainfield City 4 & 1 9 p. 



Sayreville Township 4 & 2 9 p. 



Westfield Township 1 9 p. 



Balance of the general area 1405 & 106 9 p. ? 



Outside Areas 



Deal Beach 201 



Elizabeth 1 



Glen Rock or Ridgewood 2 & 1 9 p. ? 



Madison 2 ? 



Mendham 1486 10 



Paterson 1 9 p. ? 



South Orange 12 



Wyckoff 4 ? 



From the above table, as far as the scouting of this fall and early- 

 winter has gone within the infested areas, it seems that there has been 

 a very material reduction in the number of egg masses. What the 

 continuance and completion of the 1921-1922 scouting will show is, of 

 course, impossible to say; but if we may take the above figures as an 

 indication, it is to be expected that the first year's work against the 

 gipsy moth will show most excellent results. With one exception, 

 that of Mendham, the outside areas thus far scouted have shown a 

 complete disappearance of the insect. 



The total cost of the work in New Jersey for the present year is not 

 apt to be much less than it was last year, because the money which was 

 expended last year in permanent spraying equipment and which this 

 year will not need to be replaced will be taken up in the amount of 

 additional scouting necessary. The work of the present year is supported 

 by $125,000.00 state appropriation. The amount of money which the 

 Government will be able to expend in New Jersey is still a matter of 

 doubt, because the $400,000.00 appropriated by the last Congress for 

 the gipsy moth work in the country is insufficient and of the $600,000.00 

 requested of Congress for the gipsy moth work for the coming fiscal 

 year $100,000.00 isrequested as immediately available. If the $600,000.00 

 request is granted, the New Jersey problem will probably receive a 



