340 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, [Pub. Doc. 



8toneham. 



The village of Stoneham was well burlapped during the 

 summer. Only a few scattered caterpillars were found here 

 and there, except in one or two localities, where a few more 

 were found. 



This distribution of single caterpillars, which has been 

 made known by the use of burlaps during the summer, shows 

 that the Middlesex Fells region is a source from which towns 

 near by become reinfested. That portion of the Middlesex 

 Fells which is included in Stoneham has never been seriously 

 infested, except in the south-eastern corner of the town. 

 Several large colonies have been found in past years in the 

 vicinity of the Langwood Hotel, and near the Melrose, 

 Maiden and Medford lines.. Several have been exterminated 

 and others greatly improved in 1897. 



Swampscott. 

 A few moths have been found this year in three localities 

 not far from the beach. The northern portion of the town, 

 which is more or less wooded and similar in appearance 

 and vegetation to parts of Salem pastures, has never been 

 thoroughly treated until within a year. In the spring of 

 1897 the trees in this section were thinned out, the under- 

 growth cut, and where the caterpillars appeared later the 

 ground was burned over. Since then few caterpillars have 

 been taken except in one locality, which should be care- 

 fully watched. All but one of the known colonies were 

 inspected in the fall and no egg-clusters were found. 

 Another tree-to-tree inspection would doubtless so com- 

 plete the extermination of the moth from Swampscott that 

 only an occasional examination would thereafter be needed. 



Waltham. 

 In the only colony known to exist in Waltham in 1896 a 

 few caterpillars appeared in the spring of 1897. This was a 

 large woodland colony, and was carefully looked after dur- 

 ing the summer. A search of the entire residential part of 

 the city was conducted early in the fall, but no eggs were 

 found. 



