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the town during the summer from Maiden or Everett. The 

 condition of the town continues excellent, though not much 

 improved over that of last year. So soon as the moths in 

 Maiden and Everett are destroyed, but not before, Revere 

 can be cleared of the pest. The summer travel toward the 

 beach may be expected to continue carrying moths into the 

 town so long as there are many in Maiden, Medford and 



Everett. 



Salem. 



A thorough inspection of the entire city of Salem, which 

 was made during the fall, indicates that the moths were 

 exterminated from the residential part of the city by the 

 work of 1897. Some still remain in the partially wooded 

 tract, known as the Salem Pastures, which are kept infested 

 by people continually driving cattle into them from the 

 direction of Lynn and Saugus. The fall inspection has 

 shown here and there a few egg-clusters in the Pastures ; it 

 has also shown a few recent clusters scattered singly through 

 the centre of the town. All the conditions indicate that 

 these have been distributed by travel from the colonies in 

 Peabody near the Salem line. Every egg-cluster found has 

 been destroyed ; but there still remains work to be done 

 in the Pastures, part of which cannot be undertaken until 

 the snow has disappeared. 



Somerville. 

 The condition of Somerville still remains good. A very 

 few stray larvae have been found in some of the Somerville 

 colonies, and also in some places not heretofore known to 

 be infested. Most of these were probably brought in from 

 Medford in various ways during the season. For instance, 

 in Tufts College grounds, situated on the Medford and 

 Somerville line, a few single caterpillars are annually 

 picked up under the burlaps about Commencement time. 

 In a search made during the spring a few small new colo- 

 nies were found before the eggs hatched. There were 

 only two localities where the caterpillars were found in 

 numbers. These were carefully treated, and very few 

 moths have been found there since. The entire city was 

 inspected in the fall of 1898, and all egg-clusters found 



