298 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Rules and Regulations of the Gypsy Moth 

 Committee. 



1. All persons are forbidden by law to remove the gypsy moth, 

 its nests or eggs, from one place to another, in any city or town, 

 and are requested to exercise care against so transporting the 

 gypsy moth on teams and carriages. 



2. All persons are forbidden to remove from the present locality 

 in the towns of Medford, Everett, Chelsea, Maiden, Melrose and 

 Arlington, any hay, manure, wood, bark, trees, rags, lumber or 

 shrubbery of any kind, without a written permit from the depart- 

 ment. All loads must be well covered with canvas covers. 



3. All persons are forbidden to in any way imitate or erase the 

 marks employed by this department to designate trees, fences or 

 buildings, which are infested or have been cleaned. 



4. All vehicles leaving the above-named district may be stopped 

 by the officers of the department, and delayed until their contents 

 have been sufficiently inspected to determine the fact that they are 

 not liable to transmit the eggs or any other form of the insect. 



5. No person shall remove the bark from trees, nor attempt to 

 scrape and clean them, without first notifying this department, and 

 having said trees thoroughly inspected, and, if found infested, 

 cleaned under its direction. The eggs of the gypsy moth are fre- 

 quently scattered abroad by scraping the trees and by careless 

 gathering ; therefore, all persons except the authorized agents of 

 this department are forbidden to remove the eggs of the gypsy 

 moth from trees or other objects upon which they may have been 

 deposited. Real estate owners and tenants are requested to destroy 

 all other forms of the moth which they may find upon their 

 premises. 



6. All persons, upon notice, are required to confine their dogs 

 while the agents of this department are at work upon their 

 premises. 



7. Owners or tenants are requested to gather and burn all 

 rubbish and useless material upon their premises that may provide 

 nesting places for the insect, and to fill with cement or other solid 

 material all holes in trees upon their premises. 



8. All persons are requested to keep the windows of their 

 houses protected by screens during the summer months, as it is 

 found the insect often lays its eggs in the houses, wherever it can 

 gain admittance. 



9. All persons having reasonable cause to believe that the eggs, 

 caterpillars or other forms of the gypsy moth exist on or about 



