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THE FIRST POWER-TRUCK SPRAYER EVER INVENTED. BUILT BY THE 

 MASSACHUSETTS STATE FORESTER IN 1911 FOR SPRAYING IN Till': 

 GYPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH WORK. THE WHOLE OUTFIT WAS 

 DESIGNED AND BUILT FOR THIS WORK, AND PROMISES TO REVO- 

 LUTIONIZE THE QUESTION OF SPRAYING, PARTICULARLY ROAD- 

 SIDE, PARK AND SHADE TREE WORK, IN COMBATING INSECT AND 

 FUNGOUS DEPREDATIONS. IT CAN BE USED FOR FOREST FIRE 

 WORK AS WELL. THE SAME ENGINE THAT PROPELS T1U-; TRUCK 

 ALSO IMPARTS Till' I'OWKR FOR SPRAY INC.. 



much as the three previous years com- been included all the scrub growth and 



bined. Estimating the forest area of old pastures), it will require only twen- 



the State at 2,500,000 acres, which is ty-five years to completely destroy 



a very conservative estimate (and in every acre of forest land within this 



order to reach this amount there has Stair. Then what is the result? Sim- 



