News and Notes 169 



Province before the law preventing the importation of White 

 pine seedlings had been in operation. 



It is also contemplated to improve this law, having force for 

 the whole Dominion, by excluding not only all five-needled 

 pines, but importation of the other host, the currant, as well. 



State Forester A. F. Hawes of Burlington has received a tele- 

 gram from Senator Carroll S. Page announcing the passage, by 

 Congress, of a $20,000 appropriation for the eradication of the 

 blister rust disease of the White pine. With this sum the United 

 States Department of Agriculture will make a careful examination 

 of the Eastern States to find out whether there are any cases of 

 the disease in addition to those already known, and will be able 

 to carry out the work of eradication. 



Over 12,000,000 specimens of two parasites which prey on 

 the gipsy moth and brown-tail moth were released in 201 towns 

 in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island 

 during the fall of 1914 and the spring of 1915, according to the 

 Annual Report of the Bureau of Entomology, United States 

 Department of Agriculture. 



As a result of scouting work carried on by the entomologists 

 in 223 towns in New England, the gipsy moth was found in 4 

 towns in Maine, 23 in New Hampshire, 3 in Vermont, 10 in 

 Massachusetts, and 10 in Connecticut, making a total of 50 

 towns where the insect had not been previously reported. This 

 scouting consists in an examination of all roadsides, residential 

 sections, orchards and woodlands. Where colonies are found, 

 the tgg clusters are treated with creosote and the trees are 

 banded with tree tanglefoot and sprayed with arsenate of lead. 



The spread of the brown-tail moth during the past year has 

 been inconsiderable, the indications being that this pest has not 

 infested any territory other than that already reported. In 

 cooperation with the United States Lighthouse Service, the work 

 of collecting moths at night along the coast of Connecticut and 

 Long Island has been continued. 



Other activities of the Bureau in relation to the gipsy moth 

 include the inspection of forest products, nursery stock, and 

 stone and quarry products shipped from gipsy-moth territory, 

 as well as extended investigations along other lines. 



