THE GIPS? MOTH. l"-> 
venting the further spread of the gipsy moth. The appro- 
priation did not become available until July 1 and early in 
August scouts were put at work in the infested towns in 
New Hampshire. Up to December, 1906, when Bulletin 128 
of this station went to press, no other towns had been 
scouted in New Hampshire, but in January and February, 
1907, some twenty-six towns were found infested by the 
scouts of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, under the direction of Mr. D. M. Rogers, with 
headquarters at Boston, and by June, 1907, the list had 
grown to thirty-three towns and three cities. The spread 
of the pest in 1906 is shown on the map, figure 1, and the 
list of infestations is given in the table below. 
Although the limit of the infested territory had not been 
reached, scouting stopped in June, 1907, because the eggs 
had then hatched and the foliage of the trees prevented ef- 
fective work in locating the egg masses. A somewhat super- 
ficial examination of the chief mountain and lake resorts 
was made during June, but no infestations were found 
north of Dover, nor farther west than Manchester and 
Nashua. 
The number of infestations in the different towns varied 
from one each in Durham, Lee, Chester and Newington to 
eighty-five in Rye. The total number of infestations dis- 
covered during the inspection of the winter, 1906- '07, was 
483 and the whole number of egg masses found and creo- 
soted was about 4,000. 
1907. By the time the legislature met in January, 1907, 
the scouting had revealed the seriousness of the infestation 
in New Hampshire, and Bulletin 128 of this station by Dr. 
L. O. Howard, entomologist of the U. S. Department of Ag- 
riculture, and the writer, pointed out the desirability of 
legislation patterned very closely after that found success- 
ful in Massachusetts. Governor Floyd in his inaugural 
message called attention to the seriousness of the pest and 
urged adequate legislation for its control. As a result, a 
bill following very closely the law of Massachusetts was 
