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the eggs. Many trees were cut down and burned with the 

 eggs upon them. Therefore the number of different forms 

 of the moth destroyed during the year cannot be correctly 

 stated ; but the records of moths killed in the outer towns 

 are very accurate, and enough has been learned from the 

 figures taken to show that approximately ninety-five per 

 cent of the different forms of the moth were killed in Med- 

 ford and Saugus woods and in adjacent territory. 



Work Done. 



Trees (fruit, shade and forest) : — 

 Inspected (number of times) , . . . 



Burlapped, 



Banded with insect lime, .... 



In which cavities have been cemented or covered 



Sprayed, . 



Scraped, . 



Trimmed, 



Trimmed for burlap. 



Cut 



Cutting and burning : — 

 Acres of brush and shrubbery cut and burned, 

 Acres of ground burned over with oil, . 

 Acres of ground burned over without oil, 



Buildings : — 

 Inspected, 

 Found to be infested, 



Wooden fences : — 

 Inspected (rods), 

 Found to be infested, 



Stone walls : — 

 Inspected (rods). 

 Found to be infested. 

 Burned out (rods), . 



,202,692 



,117,628 



4,715 



1,949 



21,479 



1,401 



81,545 



39,615 



27?,101 



1,010 



62 



122 



12,998 

 1,138 



72,652 

 1,150 



18,534 



596 



1,683 



liaise Alarms. 



During 1897, as in former years, reports of the presence 

 of supposed gypsy moths or of injury caused by them have 

 been received from towns within the infested region and 

 from other towns in the State ; but in no such case has any 

 evidence of the moth been found by our investigation outside 

 of the region previously known to be infested, except in 

 Lincoln. 



