The Rescue of an Old Place 



lect by land-owners of their premises, and 

 by town authorities of the webs on their 

 own highways, which have been allowed 



high-rood. 



to accumulate, until the country roads 

 have lost their beauty, lined as they are 

 with trees shrouded from root to summit 

 in ghostly webs, under which myriads of 

 loathsome black worms writhe and crawl, 

 and eat their fill, to the shuddering dis- 

 gust of the wayfarer. 



Far and near, not only are the Wild 

 Cherry trees, already infested with the 

 odious black knot, left to spread a second 

 plague among the fruit-trees, but whole 

 orchards are allowed to bear unmolested 

 swarms of caterpillars, their owners pre- 

 ferring to sacrifice their apples rather 

 than take the trouble to clean their trees 

 of the webs. 



Commtmi- Since the State of Massachusetts has 

 t" he charge taken the Gypsy Moth in hand, why should 

 not communities take charge of their own 

 worms, and enforce the destruction of the 

 webs by each land-owner, under penalty 

 of a fine, while the street commissioners 

 be made to attend to the trees bordering 

 the highway ? 



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