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dents appear to have been particularly exposed to infesta- 

 tion. 



Beyond these towns only the borders of railways, certain 

 highways, the centres of villages and such estates as are 

 believed to have been exposed to a possibility of infestation 

 are inspected. A few cities which are centres of trade and 

 travel form an exception to this rule. They have been more 

 thoroughly inspected. The following cities and towns have 

 been more or less thoroughly looked over. Some have been 

 visited only once, but most of them have been inspected 

 several times during the last live years. In none of them 

 has any trace of the moth been found : — 



Bedford. 



Boxford. 



Billerica. 



Brookline. 



Concord. 



Dedham. 



Essex. 



Georgetown. 



Gloucester. 



Hamilton. 



Hull. 



Measures for the Information of the Public. 

 The Board of Agriculture has from the first believed that 

 success in the work of preventing the spread and securing 

 the extermination of the gypsy moth could not be hoped for 

 without the intelligent co-operation of the public. Every 

 effort, consistent with the letter and meaning of the statute 

 under which the work has been carried on, has been made 

 to diffuse information in regard to the identity and character 

 of the pest and the laws enacted and regulations made for 

 its destruction. The rules and regulations of the gypsy 

 moth committee have been frequently advertised in the daily 

 papers. Every facility has been offered to the daily and 

 weekly press in regard to the publication of illustrated arti- 

 cles upon the gypsy moth. Cuts of the moth have been 

 loaned many newspapers, and have had a wide circulation. 

 Information has been frequently given to the agricultural 

 press. 



