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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



[Pub. Doc. 



In the following towns work was done on the State highv/ays 

 under the direction of the State Forester's office, and paid for by 

 the State Forester from the appropriation for the suppression of 

 the gypsy and brown-tail moths : — 



Parasite Work. 



Report op Dr. L. 0. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, 

 Washington, D. C. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 

 Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C, Dec. 7, 1912. 



Prof. F. W. Rane, Slate Forester, 6 Beacoji Street, Boston, Mass. 



Dear Professor Rane : — In accordance with your request, I take 

 pleasure in enclosing a report on the parasite work of this year, for in- 

 clusion in your annual report. 



Yours most truly, 



L. O. Howard, 

 Chief of Bureau. 



Down nearly to the date when I submitted my last report to you, 

 namely, Dec. 15, 1911, all of the work on the parasites of the gypsy moth 

 and brown-tail moth had been carried on co-operatively between the 

 State of Massachusetts and the Bureau of Entomology of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, and on the whole the expense of the work was 

 about equally shared. The co-operation on this project between the 

 State and the Department of Agriculture was in effect for about six years, 

 and was thoroughly satisfactory. Without the assistance of the State 

 the operations by the department could not have been carried on upon 

 so large a scale as has been possible. The most cordial relations have 



