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is checked and it is prevented from reaching north of Roch- 

 ester, there is every reason to believe that it would do more 

 than all the lumbermen to destroy the scenic beauty of the 

 White ^Mountains, and a national forest reserve would not 

 prevent its depredations. 



As before stated, no funds of the state or of this station 

 are available for further inspection of towns other than 

 that already partially made to determine, as far as possible, 

 the present extent of the infestation. It is imperative, 

 therefore, that each town takes steps for the eradication of 

 the pest mthin its borders. This should be done by the 

 towns and not left to the individual, for but few people 

 unacquainted with the pest and untrained in looking for it 

 will be able to find a single egg mass in an orchard of 100 

 trees, as a trained inspector will readily do. The impor- 

 tance of such work being done thoroughly by the town or 

 state and not left to the property owner is indicated by the 

 experiences in Massachusetts. The statements of two citizens 

 quoted in the exhaustive treatise on "The Gypsy Moth," 

 by Messrs. Forbush and Fernald, bear directly upon this : 

 "It is not easy to give outsiders an idea of how bad the 

 caterpillars were. If the state had not done something, I 

 honestly think we should have had to move away from here. 

 We were worn out with catching them. When they were 

 thickest we did not pretend to go out the front door at all." 

 Another says : ' ' Before public measures were taken in the 

 matter, the foliage was completely stripped from all the 

 trees in the eastern part of our town, presenting a picture 

 of devastation and promising in a short time to kill every 

 tree and shrub and all vegetation in any region visited by 

 them; which shows how inadequate indi\4dual effort was to 

 cope with the subject." Many others might be quoted in 

 the same strain. 



If the establishment of the gypsy moth in New Hamp- 

 shire is to be prevented, it will be necessary for the towns 

 to destroy any eggs existing in parts not inspected by us 

 before May, 1906. Similar inspection will doubtless also be 



