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Lynnfield that little more can be done until the entire town 

 has had, as a precautionary measure, a tree-to-tree inspec- 

 tion. This should be made without fail during the winter 

 of 1899-1900, or before the leaves appear in the spring. 



Manchester. — Special attention has been given to Man- 

 chester during the past season by as many men as could be 

 spared for this work. More than 50,000 trees were bur- 

 lapped at the beginning of the larval season, and inspected 

 as often as possible during the summer. During the past 

 fall the greater portion of the town, including the woodland, 

 has received a careful inspection, and all of the infested 

 localities have been cleared of eggs. Only 16 egg-clusters 

 were found in the entire area examined, and these were in 

 the worst-infested localities of the previous year. It will 

 thus be seen that practically a years work has reduced the 

 moth from hundreds of thousands to the small number men- 

 tioned above. The town is now brought to a condition where 

 the amount of labor and expense can be greatly reduced. 

 After another year of carefully conducted work in a few 

 localities there should be no form of the moth left in the 

 town. 



Marhlehead. — No form of the moth was found during the 

 year in any of the old colonies. In October an opportunity 

 presented for a thorough inspection of the entire town. 

 This inspection resulted in the finding of a few egg-clusters 

 in three localities, — two of them near the railroad station, a 

 centre of travel, and the other in the eastern part of the town, 

 on an estate whose occupants have had frequent communica- 

 tion with the Hawkes farm in Saugus, which has been nearly 

 overrun in the past with gypsy moths. This thorough in- 

 spection and the slight infestation found shows clearly that 

 the gypsy moth has once been entirely exterminated from the 

 town. It also shows that the town has become reinfested 

 since the inspection of three years ago, and well illustrates 

 the folly of allowing the moth to swarm in the large central 

 colonies, as was necessarily the case in the years of reduced 

 appropriations. 



JVahant — A thorough inspection of this town was made 

 in October, 1899. This inspection being concluded, on each 

 of three estates there had been found one old nest and its 



