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drawn by Hon. Allen Mollis of Concord, and with minor 
amendments, the most important being the reduction of the 
appropriation from $50,000 per year for two years to $25,- 
000 for two years, was finally passed and approved by the 
governor. The original draft of the bill contemplated plac- 
ing the work in the hands of a state entomologist, as in 
Massachusetts and other states, but a separate bill intro- 
duced by Mr. Hollis creating that position, after passing the 
committee on agriculture of the House, was reported unfav- 
orably by the committee on appropriations. The enforce- 
ment of the law was therefore left in the hands of the gov- 
ernor and council, with authority to appoint a state agent 
to have charge of the work if they deemed necessary. 
~\York in Summer of 1907. Under this law on May 22, 
1907, Governor Floyd and council contracted with Mun- 
son and Whittaker, a Massachusetts firm of contractors 
for tree work, to do the necessary burlapping of trees in 
infested localities to catch the caterpillars, hatching from 
eggs which were not found by the scouts in their necessarily 
hasty inspection the previous winter. "Work under this 
contract was begun immediately by seven crews of five or 
six men each, scattered throughout the infested territory, 
and by June 20 practically all the necessary burlap had 
been applied to the infested and neighboring trees. The 
work of the contractors was inspected for the governor and 
council by Mr. G. E. Merrill, of Hampton Falls, N. H., 
and who had been in charge of a party of scouts of the 
Bureau of Entomology and had been over the entire in- 
fested territory. No accurate record was kept of the trees 
banded, but Mr. Merrill estimates that about 36,000 trees 
were burlapped; in Hampton, 3,500; North Hampton, 
4,000; Rye, 5,000; Portsmouth, 3,000; Hampton Falls, 
2.000; Greenland, 2,000; Seabrook, 2,000, and the remain- 
der of the infested district, 14,500. In the towns of 
Hampton, North Hampton, Rye and Portsmouth, where 
the worst infestations occurred, the bands were exam- 
ined daily. In the other towns the burlaps were ex- 
