No. 4.] 



REPORT OF STATE FORESTER. 



497 



List of Forest Wardens and Local jSIoth Superintendents — Con. 



The Application of Forestry to Moth Work. 

 The work of applying forestry practice to the control of the 

 gypsy moths has proceeded steadily and with gratifying success 

 during the past year. This work was started hardly two years 

 ago, and has grown until it is now one of the most important 

 features of the activities of the department. The theory of the 

 work as outlined in the last annual report — the removal from 

 our woodlands as much as possible of the favorite food trees 

 of the moths, and the substituting and encouraging of species 

 more resistant to the moth attacks — has been confirmed by 

 the test of actual practice. In the methods of carrying on the 

 forestry operations, and in the utilization of the resulting prod- 

 ucts, great advances have been made during the past year. 



