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THE BROWN-TAIL MOTH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE 



Brown-tail Moth, by Messrs. Fernald and Kirkland, are sim- 

 ply examples of many others which have been reported to the 

 authorities : 



A lady in Somerville wrote: "We were shockingly poi- 

 soned by the cater- 

 pillars of the Brown- 

 tail Moth. They 

 troubled us all sum- 

 mer. Every member 

 of my family was poi- 

 soned. At first we 

 did not know what 

 they were. My little 

 boy could not go near 

 the insects without 

 getting poisoned, — 

 every time he went 

 to pick cherries he 

 would come down 

 from the tree badly 

 poisoned. If my 

 baby went near 

 where they were, his 

 face would break out 

 into a rash. I was so 

 dreadfully poisoned 

 that I thought I had 

 some frightful dis- 

 e a se . My hands, 

 face, and arms were 

 broken out with this 

 rash. Most of the cat- 

 erpillars came from a 

 neighbor's place. 

 They came over the 

 fence into the house, and even into the closets. They would 

 get on the clothes hung on the line, and when these were worn 

 they poisoned us." 



A Somervillle physician wrote : " The first we saw of these 



Fig. 



-Winter Nest of Brown-tail Moth on 

 Voung Plum Tree. 



