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important towns and cities to make appropriations and also 

 by inefficient workmen. 



The plan for 1907 is, if legislature appropriates funds, 

 first to hold all that has been gained in the residential dis- 

 tricts and on the highways and second to work back to the 

 woodland property. For this work we have at the present 

 time an efficient force organized. We can make a better 

 showing now than we have in. the past because of the good 

 organization of forces. 



The work of the National government has been of great 

 aid to the state works. 



On the lands controlled by the metropolitan water and 

 sewerage board and by the metropolitan park commission 

 great gain has been made which helps materially in the 

 care of the infested district. 



The assistance of the press of the state has been con- 

 tinuous and cordial and has probably been the most helpful 

 single factor in the educational campaign. Outside of the 

 infested area it is a matter of education. 



On the parasite question the superintendents takes con- 

 servative ground. Laboratory experiments and those con- 

 ducted on properly enclosed trees show that the European 

 parasites have bred in a normal manner upon the gypsy and 

 brown tail moths. 



The residential sections can be handled, the roadsides 

 can be handled but the orchard sections and the woodlands 

 cannot be handled for a number of years. 



We have done the best we could with this problem; 

 have inspected and located the infestations; have induced 

 the owners to cut or have cut the hollow trees wherever pos- 

 sible ; have endeavored to have the trees properly burlapped 

 and tended and sprayed ; but it is only honest to say that we 

 have succeeded in making but a beginning and that in most 

 towns the orchards are in a worse condition now than a 

 year ago. More money will be needed for this work if we 

 are to hold our own. Much money will be needed if we are 

 to make a gain.' 



At 4 P. M., the session was adjourned to 10 A. M. 

 Thursday. 



