"In addition to that an assessment was made upon the 

 towns and cities of the State and I have here a copy of the 

 law which I will read to you. 



"Starting on the 8th of May Prof. Kirkland gathered 

 men who had had previous experience and has gradually 

 been working up a force so that we now have about 32 em- 

 ployees. About the 1st of June we started on the inspec- 

 tion of the territory outside of that previously inspected. 



"That work was continued during the fall and in some 

 cases up to the present time. It is hard to get good men 

 who are qualified for the work, while in 1900, when we 

 sprayed, we had a good force of men but these have all 

 found new situations and are not willing to leave while it 

 is uncertain what will be done by the State." 



Mr. Minott showed about 30 slides exhibiting the gypsy 

 and brown tail moths in all stages of development, also 

 showing what the State is doing in different towns in the 

 Commonwealth and the methods used to exterminate these 

 pests. 



After some discussion the next lecture was called, 

 Pres. Eames introducing Dr. E. Porter Felt, State Entomol- 

 ogist of New York, who spoke on 



INSECTS AND SCALE PESTS COMMON TO NEW ENG- 

 LAND AND BEST REMEDY FOR EACH 



"It affords me peculiar pleasure to appear before you 

 this morning because I consider myself very much at home 

 in Worcester. 



"In the first place I wish to congratulate this Society 

 upon giving a prominent place to the lecture which has 

 just been concluded because it seems to me that this ques- 

 tion of the gypsy and brown tail moth is one that concerns 

 all New England because it is only a question of time before 

 you will have your own experiences with these insects, and 

 while this morning we may laugh at the man carrying an 

 umbrella over his head to protect himself from the moths, 

 it would not appear so funny when we had to do it our- 

 selves. 



"I want to say that I know of no man better fitted by 

 training and experience to cope with this work of extermi- 

 nation than Prof. Kirkland. 



"I am going to turn aside from caterpillars and talk 



