no STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



This is a brief history of the work that has been done in the 

 State by our men. And right here I beg to say that in no kind 

 of business anywhere has there been such a lot of men brought 

 together. We have the most intelligent, the brightest and the 

 most gentlemanly set of men engaged in the work that are hired 

 by anybody. Every one of them is a native of the State of 

 Maine. In our work in the last two and a half years we have 

 had representatives from every county in the State on the pay 

 roll. Every college in the State has been represented, — Bow- 

 doin, Colby, Bates, University of Maine ; also Hebron Academy, 

 etc. This is the class of men which we have tried to hire and 

 which we will continue to hire as long as we have charge of the 

 work. 



I have made a few slides which possibly may be of interest 

 to you, which will show the character of the work and the 

 process which is gone through by the men in the field. The 

 first picture shows a woodland and an apple tree on the estate 

 of John Thaxter at Kittery Point. This apple tree is the tree 

 from which the first gypsy moth in the State of Maine was 

 taken. 



The next picture shows the first gypsy moth crew in the State, 

 the original gypsy moth crew. They are all in the work at the 

 present time with the exception of three, Mr. Hale, who is now 

 in the Harvard Law School, Mr. Baker of Portland, who left 

 the work to take a situation which pays him more money, and 

 Mr. Hamilton of Norway, who was obliged to leave the work 

 in July on account of his health. 



This picture represents the method of putting the burlap on 

 the trees. A strip eight inches wide is put on the tree and tied 

 in the center with twine, and the upper part turned down. The 

 gypsy moth caterpillar is a night feeder. During the sunshine 

 of the day it comes down from the tops of the trees. Tjiis bur- 

 lap is put on the trees so that this will be the first hiding place 

 that it reaches. It goes up under this flap. The burlap is 

 turned every day and sometimes twice a day, and tli2 cater- 

 pillars taken out from underneath and crushed by the men. 



The next picture shows the method of burlapping an apple 

 tree on the limbs above the crevices, which keeps the caterpil- 

 lars from going dov/n and hiding in the crotch of the tree. This 



