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fested region. In the autumn, as soon as the leaves had 

 fallen, experienced men were sent into the towns lying fur- 

 ther west and north, with instructions to visit and inspect 

 all estates named in the statistics obtained during the sum- 

 mer and all other places which during the inspection were 

 found to have been endangered by constant teaming from the 

 infested region. During this search two orchards were 

 found infested in Burlington, one near the Woburn line, the 

 other near the Lexington boundary. These, with the colony 

 in Franklin Park and one found just over the Peabody line 

 in Dan vers, early in the season, are the only colonies known 

 outside the region which was found infested during the 

 search of 1891. Every visible vestige of the moth in these 

 places was destroyed. 



Every eftbrt possible with the means at hand was made 

 during the season to determine Avhether the moth had ex- 

 tended beyond its known limits. Many places have been 

 reported as infested by the gypsy moth and all such reports 

 have been investigated, with negative results. 



Results of the Year's Worh. 



During the past year more than one hundred towns out- 

 side the infested region have been visited and either partially 

 or wholly inspected, but in them no moths have been found. 

 The following places named in the "list of towns infested 

 in 1891" have been apparently cleared of the moth: 

 Beverly, Brighton, Charlestown, Lynnfield, Marblehead, 

 Reading, Waltham and Watertown.* (See map.) Two 

 other towns (Burlington and Dan vers) which have since been 

 found infested, have lieen thoroughly searched and cleared. 



While the formerly infested localities in these towns will 

 not need to be worked as they were in 1893, each town 

 ought to be carefully inspected at least once each year 

 as long as the moths are known to be in the adjacent towns. 

 Most of the known infested localities in. Lexington, Peabody^ 

 Salem, Swampscott, Woburn, Winchester, Winthrop and 

 Wakefield have l)een cleared, and another year's work like 



* Two of these (Charlestown and Brighton) ninst be considered as districts as tbey 

 comprise certain wards of Boston. 



