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during May and early June." Where orchards are to be 

 sprayed, this spraying may be combined with that which 

 should always be given for the codling moth and diseases. 



Burlapping. — "When a loose band of burlap or other 

 cloth is tied about an infested tree trunk, the caterpillars 

 will gather under it in the early morning and may be 

 destroyed by hand. The burlaps should be examined 

 daily." "This cloth band is in no sense a tree protector; 

 nor is it a trap. Its function is simply to give the shelter 

 which the caterpillars seek by day." Unless carefully 

 attended the burlap band does more harm than good. All 

 burlaps should be removed at end of season. 



NECESSITY OF THE SUPPRESSION OF THE GYPSY MOTH IN NEW 



HAMPSHIRE. 



It is absolutely essential that the towns in New Hamp- 

 shire known to be infested with the gypsy moth, or which 

 are liable to be infested, should take immediate action 

 toward having all trees along roadways carefully inspected 

 by a trained man and the egg nests destroyed wherever 

 found. 



It is difficult to appreciate the necessity of fighting such 

 a pest as this where it is present in such small numbers as 

 to do no damage, unless one has seen the terrible devasta- 

 tion wrought by it when at its worst. Citizens of south- 

 eastern New Hampshire are coming to appreciate, through 

 personal experience, the seriousness of the brown-tail moth 

 caterpillars, but in many respects the gypsy moth is a much 

 more serious pest. It defoliates the trees in June, when it 

 is much more difficult for the tree to put out new leaves, 

 and it is more injured than by defoliation by the brown- 

 tail caterpillars earlier in the spring. Again, the gypsy 

 moth caterpillar attacks pines and all coniferous trees. 

 Should it become established in New Hampshire as in east- 

 ern ]\Iassachusetts, we have every reason to think that it 

 would cause immense losses to the lumber industrv through- 

 out New Hampshire. Unless the spread of the gypsy moth 



