274 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



A P P E X D I X . 



Cojyy of Statement of Mr. L. M. Clifford, 32 Myrtle Street, Medford, 



Mass. 



In 1889 we lost three apple trees because of the caterpillars. 

 They were stripped clean and then leaved out and bloomed again 

 in September. The next sprhig they leaved out a little, but did 

 not bear, and finally died. In 1889 the caterpillars were over 

 everything. The house was black. They crawled inside of win- 

 dows whenever the}^ could. 



Last year the gypsy-moth men got but one nest from our 

 yard. Last year the caterpillars did no injury to the trees and 

 they bore fairly well. They seemed, however, to have not got 

 over the effects of being stripped two years in succession by the 

 caterpillars and do not bear so well as formerly. One tree in 

 particular, which formerly bore heavily, has never done so well 

 since. 



(Signed) L. M. Clifford. 



Feb. 11, 1893. 



Cojjy of Statement of Mr. J. C. Clark, Station Agent at Park Street, 

 Medford, Mass. 

 I live at No. 11 Myrtle Street. The moths ruined me as re- 

 gards fruit. They were the worst in 1889. Their ravages caused 

 me to lose five nice apple trees, two cherry trees, one pear tree 

 and five plum trees. I lost all my plum trees. One fall I got five 

 bushels of plums from them. The caterpillars stripped these trees 

 of every particle of vegetation. It was the caterpillars, not Paris 

 green, that killed them, because it was before the days of the 

 commission and the trees were not sprayed. The caterpillars did 

 not touch the pear trees until they had eaten all the leaves on the 

 apple trees. I had a crab-apple tree that blossomed very full that 

 spring, but the caterpillars covered it and it died. One of the 

 apple trees which the caterpillars killed was a beautiful Hubbard- 

 ston. Some years I would get four barrels off of it to put away. 

 All you will see of it to-day in my yard is the stump, over which 

 we train nasturtiums. I would not have taken Si 00 for the tree. 

 The spring following the ravages of the moth these trees leaved 

 out a little, but not much, and finally died. During the summer 

 of which I speak (1889) my currant bushes were also attacked. 

 They were covered with caterpillars, but I saved them by sprink- 

 ling them twice a day with a solution of soap suds and kero- 

 sene. The caterpillars covei'ed one side of my house so thickly 



