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roadsides are sprayed each year. Individuals, the municipaUties, towns 

 and the State all co-operate in this work. The annual appropriation of the 

 State is $315,000 a year. The total expenditure from all sources in this 

 work within the State up to the present time is estimated at S6,000,000. 

 Besides this, the United States government has spent in Massachusetts 

 probably $700,000. We have had as many as 2,700 men at work at one 

 time in the busiest season of the year. The renowned North Shore, our 

 fashionable summer resort, spends practically $100,000 a year to protect 

 the trees in that section alone. 



The State Forester's spraying apparatus is composed of an aggregation 

 of 300 spraying outfits. We use in a single season over 400 tons of arsenate 

 of lead, the State's contract alone being for 250 tons a year. 



During the past two years the State Forester's department has made 

 great improvements in power-spraying equipment, the cost of spraying 

 woodland having been reduced from $30 or more per acre to as low as 

 $6 in some instances. Instead of its being necessary to climb trees, as 

 heretofore, the modem power sprayer enables us to spray from the ground 

 directly over the tops of tall trees. The whole spraying problem has been 

 revolutionized. It is certainly to be hoped that these insects may not 

 secure a foothold elsewhere. Surely Massachusetts is doing her part, and 

 I cannot urge too strongly the necessity of other States and the nation 

 realizing the importance of this work. We have introduced parasites from 

 all over the world, and they are showing great promise. The work with 

 disease also seems very effective, and the writer feels optimistic. It is 

 very clear that the practice of modern forestry methods and the employ- 

 ment of highly developed mechanical devices are doing much, and we 

 trust ere long the parasites and diseases will bring about the desired result. 



Forestry. 



Massachusetts is enthusiastically interested in forestry, and the State 

 Forester this past season was given an appropriation of $10,000 for forest 

 fire work. We have appointed a State Forest Fire Warden, who is organ- 

 izing and perfecting a workable system. He is also establishing lookout 

 stations and patrol sj^stems in different sections of the State. 



Our forest management, reforestation and general forestry, educational 

 and demonstration work are all well established and progressing. We 

 have 3,000,000 trees in the State nursery for use another season. The 

 State is planting 1,000 acres each year, and our lumbermen and people 

 generally are showing interest, and doing more each season. Our appro- 

 priation, including that for forest fires this past year, was $30,000. 



Restoration v. Conservation of Natural Resources. 



In Massachusetts the work of restoration is even of more importance 



than conservation when applied to forestry. The annual cut of our 



forest products at present amounts to only 5 per cent, of that used each 



year throughout the Commonwealth for manufacturing, building and 



