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Everett. 

 Most of the trees in Everett were burlapped in 1897 and 

 the burlaps attended ; although the moths are still widely 

 distributed through the city, considerable progress has been 

 made since 1896. In that year 462,477 caterpillars were 

 taken under the burlap. In 1897 only 152,202 were taken 

 in the same manner. A thorough inspection of the city 

 should now be made, and all the eggs killed before hatching 

 time. 



Lexington. 



The colonies formerly known in East Lexington and 

 Lexington Centre, on both sides of Massachusetts Avenue, 

 are now apparently exterminated. This appears to be true 

 also of the scattered colonies on the farms, for in most of 

 these no caterpillars have been found during the summer. 

 Only 3 caterpillars have been found on Massachusetts 

 avenue during the summer, where formerly many thou- 

 sands were found. The large woodland colonies in the 

 eastern part of the town, formerly so badly infested, are 

 now in far better condition. One tract of about twenty 

 acres has been cut off by the owners and ourned over by 

 your agents. No caterpillars have been found since on 

 this tract. Much of the adjacent woodland, which in the 

 past has been considerably infested, has been burned over 

 by forest fires. Infested portions of this woodland have 

 been burlapped and inspected during the summer, and in 

 nearly all of them but few caterpillars have been found. 

 The fall inspection has revealed but few egg-clusters. Only 

 one of the large wood colonies in the north of Lexington 

 has been found infested this year, and in that only 101 

 cajterpillars were killed on a few trees. 



The town had a tree-to-tree inspection in 1895 ; since 

 that time all the colonies which had not then been exter- 

 minated have been very carefully worked. 



Lincoln. 



July 13, 1897, a colony was reported from Lincoln. It 

 was situated less than a mile from the boundary of Waltham, 

 the nearest town in the infested region as heretofore known. 



