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'Dio New .Jors<\v work whs (*(intinu(><l throughout flu- \vir\f«r nrul 

 very ^ood n^sults hnvo hoon scninMl, 



Mr. Andkrson. Is the Now .lorsrv hiisiiioss on mi oriKhcHtioti haHLsf 



Mr. BraoKs.s. Yos, .sir. Only a fow hundrc*! <ntr'ri)illar -.■ 



found hist .sumnx'r and the scout iuj; work this fall lias not pro- 1 



far enough to give a good idea of what will dovol(»p, hut we do not 



anticipate as mucli infestation as there was last year. 



AfTIVITIKK I!* NFW JRRHRY. 



Doctor Howard, i^et me interrupt you long enough to ask Doctor 

 liall to give his inu)rt»ssions of the clean-up in Now Jerscv. 



Doctor Hall. Tiiat was one of the most surprising things I have 

 over seen in the insect line. There wjis an area there in which they 

 had killed practically every tree over a large district, and were 

 denleting the trees around there in a greater circle. 



The moth had spread for nearly 200 snuarc miles, atid thev started 

 in a y»>ar ago, ancl when they sprayed the tii-st time there the cat«'r- 

 )illai-s fell off and just practically eovered the ground, just made a 

 )ed of caterpillars on the ground, an<l this year they could not find 

 <'aterpillars enough to feed the parasites on the whole area. Of 

 course, this eradication in New .Jersey, as we have told you all the 

 time, is a hopeful proposition, hut not an absolutely sure one. I feel 

 very much more hopeful of it than I did before; and unless every- 

 thing at the present time is deccfitive the outlook is good. 



Mr. Andkrson. Do you continue the .-^praying just the same when 

 you find the caterpillars or not < 



Mr. Burgess. The operations in certain areas dei)entl on scouting 

 work ilone in the winter, and if we find infestation in a locality during 

 the winter, we spray that locality and a good belt surrounding; it. 



Mr. Anderson. Are you pretty certain to find them, if tney are 

 there i 



Mr. Burgess. Reasonably certain. 



Doctor Ball. If they were there in any numbers, they would be 

 found. 



Mr. Burgess. If they are in any way numerous, we would find 

 them. There were also in New Jersey eight outlying small colonies 

 that came as a result of sliipping trees from these badly infested areas 

 before the infestation was known. Those have been cleaned up, and 

 n«> infestation was found in those areas last vear or this vear. We 

 will follow up the scouting of those areas anotlier year to <hock up so 

 as to be sure. 



There w^ere also three areas where infestations went from that main 

 area into New York vState, and tliose have been cleaned up in a 

 similar way. 



INPE.STATIONS ON IX>NO ISLAND. 



Aside from the New Ent^land and New Jersey areas, there are 

 two small infestations on Long Island that have been given very 

 careful consideration this year. I might say, however, that we 

 depended to a large extent in these infestations on spraying this 

 spring, and we had a very unfavorable season for spraying. There 

 was a great deal of rain and we did not accomplish as much by 



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