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handle their work within their HabiUty, should be compelled 

 hereafter to keep it up to this standard of efficiency. The 

 State appropriation for the coming year is needed in aiding 

 those towns that in the past have had scattering infestations 

 which now have become very general. As long as there are but 

 a few insects little co-opera*lion is forthcoming, but when the 

 stripping stage is reached then people begin to realize the danger. 



During the past year, at a request from the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, a number of towns situated just 

 within the so-called border towns now being handled by that 

 department were scouted and given special consideration. As 

 the government is faithfully attempting, at great expense, to 

 check the spread into new territory, it was thought a wise 

 expenditure of State funds to thus co-operate. During the 

 coming year the central and north cape country will need a 

 great deal of attention. 



The forest-thinning method of handling the moths, whereby 

 the trees preferred by them are removed, and resistant species 

 retained, and even planted, has proved, with spraying, a 

 great success. Many woodland owners are taking advantage 

 of this practice, and we predict that as rapidly as markets 

 can be worked up for the products removed this work 

 will just as rapidly increase. This work has not only the ad- 

 vantage of permanency, but it brings about a more economic 

 forestry condition for the future. The subject is discussed more 

 fully elsewhere in this report. 



Briefly, therefore, the moth suppression work is being han- 

 dled with a definiteness of purpose, and that real gains are being 

 made there is no doubt. The work should be continued along 

 our present lines, taking advantage of every method or com- 

 bination of methods that will get results economically. 



This report itself contains much else in detail about forestry 

 in general, and our moth work, and by this introduction it is 

 hoped the reader may be interested to look more deeply into 

 our various activities. 



Organization. 



During the year there have been a few changes, but gen- 

 erally speaking the personnel of the staff has remained the same. 



Mr. R. S. Langdell, who has been an assistant in charge of 



