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the kind of work outlined above. It is desirable to begin 

 to maintain a thoroughly organized, careful examination of 

 these outer towns, so that, if any small colonies exist, they 

 may be discovered and destroyed. No systematic work of 

 this kind was attempted in 1898, because of the enormous 

 amount of work to be done in the central infested towns. 



Summary of Year's Work. 



In making this summary there can be given only the fig- 

 ures which represent such proportion of the year's work as 

 can be tabulated accurately. The figures giving the num- 

 ber of the different forms of the moth found which appeared 

 in the tables of the reports previous to that of 1898 were 

 taken annually at considerable trouble and expense. They 

 have been omitted in this and the previous annual report, as 

 it has been decided to save the time and labor necessary to 

 keep through the year the accurate accounts required to make 

 up the summary. The reason for this omission was ex- 

 plained in full on page 25 of my report of January, 1898. 

 The trees were cut mainly on about 2,000 acres of land on 

 which the brush was cut and burned. The acreage given 

 as cut over (2,933 acres) may give a wrong impression ; 

 for, although this number of acres was actually cut over 

 either in the spring or fall, this acreage included nearly 

 1,000 acres on which the sprouts were cut early in the 

 spring and again late in the fall. 



Work Done. 



Trees inspected, 12,514,240 



Trees banded with insect-lime, ...... 4,752 



Trees burlapped, , 1,845,045 



Trees sprayed, 23,440 



Trees cut, 376,468 



Trees trimmed, 175,629 



Trees scraped, 1,529 



Trees in which holes were covered, 2,355 



Buildings inspected, 10,107 



Buildings infested, 801 



Fences inspected (rods) , 55,909 



Fences infested (rods), 818 



Stone walls inspected (rods), • 11,029 



