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towns. By that time the burlap season had come. We com- 

 menced burlapping, and burlapped 2 121 trees in the different 

 towns, which were attended very faithfully by the men during 

 the summer, with the result that we secured some 30,000 cater- 

 pillars. 



In the fall of that year scouting was again taken up with an 

 increased force, both by the government and by the state, until 

 at the end of the year we had fifty-two men on the force, part 

 of them being government men, and part of them state men. 

 \^'e continued scouting through the winter, and about the mid- 

 dle of January we again increased the forces so we had sev- 

 enty-five men. The scouting was continued until it came time 

 for burlapping. 



In the first of the year very severe infestations were found 

 in the towns of Kittery and York. These were handled in 

 the usual way, by the cleaning up of the trees and by the clean- 

 ing up of the ground, burning the ground over, and so when 

 the spring came we were able to take up the work of burlap- 

 ping and spraying. We burlapped 60,000 trees this year, and 

 they were attended in the same manner as the 2121 of the year 

 before, with the result that 77,850 caterpillars were taken from 

 under the burlaps. In addition to this, millions of the cater- 

 pillars were destroyed by fire, in burning out the stone walls and 

 burning over the ground and over places where refuse was to 

 be found. We continued the scouting again in the fall of the 

 year, carrying it along until the first of January, with the result 

 of finding 16,228 egg clusters in this year. We had then ex- 

 pended our appropriation. Pending the matter of another ap- 

 propriation by the state legislature, the government took up 

 the men and the work was carried on through the months of 

 January, February and March. The work has been carried 

 on this year in a like manner, practically. In some places we 

 have increased our use of lead arsenate. In the year 1908 we 

 used 1728 pounds, and this year we have used over four tons. 

 Over one' hundred thousand trees have been burlapped and 

 attended ; and it is almost impossible to state the number, but 

 the supposition is that at least 2,000,000 caterpillars have been 

 destroyed in this year's work. The number of egg clusters 

 found will not be known until we receive the history of the men 

 in the field. 



