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Burlington. — Two of the formerly large colonies appear 

 to be exterminated, as no form of the moth was found in 

 them during 1899. During the past fall it became possible 

 for the first time in years to inspect a part of the woodland 

 areas. Two colonies of considerable importance were found 

 near places formerly infested, and in another locality a single 

 egg-cluster was found. All of the colonies have been thor- 

 oughly worked over and put in excellent condition for the 

 operations of next year, when, if they receive proper atten- 

 tion, their extermination should be accomplished. 



Cambridge. — Scattered larvje have been taken in Cam- 

 bridge during the past season. Two small infestations in 

 the vicinity of Fresh Pond demand thorough attention. 

 Because of the large amount of valuable trees and shrubbery 

 in this city, the more heroic methods of fighting the moth 

 cannot be followed; hence, to secure extermination there 

 will be needed in the future an increased amount of hand 

 labor at an increased expense. Cambridge is in a condi- 

 tion for thorough exterminative measures, and as soon as 

 there are no badly infested centres from which the city 

 may become reinfested, such measures should yield most 

 satisfactory results. 



Chelsea. — All the trees in this city were burlapped in 

 1899, and repeatedly examined. Less than one-fourth as 

 many larvas and only about one-sixth as many egg-clusters 

 were found as in the previous year, the larger number 

 having been found near the old infested centres adjacent 

 to Everett. To exterminate the moth in Chelsea it will 

 be necessary first to suppress the general infestations in 

 Everett and Maiden, and then to pay constant attention 

 to the burlaps for a few years. 



Georgetoum. — If evidence were needed that the gypsy 

 moth has lost none of its notorious capacity for harm, the 

 scenes presented in July last at the Long Hill colony in 

 Georgetown afibrded alarming proof of the fact. The gypsy 

 moth caterpillars swarmed over three acres of woodland, on 

 two acres of which the trees stood as bare as in midwinter. 

 Pines, oaks, elms, maples, birches and hickories, together 

 with the underbrush and herbage, were alike stripped. 

 Reliable local observers, who watched the colony during 



