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many trees as he can handle through the day. That is his work. 

 He has his note-book and keeps a tally of everything done, and 

 he tends these burlaps and kills every caterpillar found through 

 the season, until the caterpillars disappear and what we call the 

 next stage, the pupae, appear. We find many of them under the 

 burlaps where the caterpillars come down, and which remain 

 hanging there. The trees are scraped, the rough bark removed, 

 and all places where they can hide covered — any holes in the 

 trees, anything of that nature ; and that is the work we do. So 

 that it is simply the collecting, or the killing of the egg clusters 

 now from August till the next spring ; then the tanglefoot ; then 

 the burlap — and that the work we have to do. 



Now in regard to this orchard business— I have just a sum- 

 mary of statistics from different counties, but we haven't time 

 to go into detail, and in fact I sat up last night till after twelve 

 o'clock and got up this morning at half past five, and then found 

 that two or three note-books were coming by express at ten 

 o'clock this morning. So you can imagine that there is some 

 little work yet to be done and probably this will come out in a 

 form that will be valuable for all of yon. I think it will be of 

 considerable value to the orchard interests of the State. I will 

 simply in a hasty way run through some of the counties, and we 

 will take Oxford county first. 



Of the number of orchards examined and reported here I have 

 140 orchards. That number of orchards contained 80,350 trees, 

 the largest orchard numbering 4,000 trees and the smallest 50 

 trees. In this work of course we have had to get at it in short 

 time, but what has been done we trust has been done thoroughly. 

 Now out of that number what trees were damaged ? In Oxford 

 county we find that the Baldwins stand first, Ben Davis second, 

 and a few Kings reported. But QS^^c of all trees examined that 

 were supposed to be winter killed during this past year were 

 Baldwins. 



Next we will take, as showing a little different condition, 

 Somerset county. Of the 84 orchards examined, containing 

 36,575 trees, we found the largest orchard numbered 2,400 trees 

 and the smallest 30 trees. In that number there were twelve 

 orchards of more than a thousand trees. With what result? 

 We find Baldwins, Ben Davis, Kings, Wealthy, Spy, Stark, 



