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condition, which has since varied from time to time, accord- 

 ing to the amount of work that coukl be done there. In 

 1894 Everett was in very foir condition ; but in 1895, owing 

 to the pressure of work elsewhere, comparatively little work 

 ■was done there, and the moths increased rapidly. During 

 the past summer Everett has been burlapped, the burlaps 

 carefully attended and the infested localities examined during 

 the fall. More caterpillars were taken there than in any 

 other city or town, and it is now in much better condition 

 than in 1895. 



Medford. 



]Medford, the original home of the gypsy moth in this 

 country, was found very badly infested from the first, and 

 much work was done there in the early part of 1891. Dur- 

 ins: the w^inter of 1891-92 a o-reat deal of careful work was 

 done in the city, and everything possible with the resources 

 provided has been done there since. No burlap was put on 

 in Medford in 189G, on account of the lateness of the appro- 

 priation ; but the w^ork of 1895 was so well done that only 

 here and there in the centres of population were the moths 

 troublesome in 189G. They have increased greatly, however, 

 in the Medford woods within two years. This tract contains 

 a large part of the Middlesex Fells reservation and other 

 woodlands. This woodland centre has been necessarily more 

 or less neglected, owing to lack of means year by year to 

 attend properly to all the woodland in the infested terri- 

 tory. During the past two years several swarms of the 

 moth have developed in the Medford woods, while many of 

 the older colonies have increased so rapidly as to menace all 

 the surrounding country. In 1896 many trees were stripped 

 in two localities on the borders of the metropolitan park 

 reservation. Most of the men working in that section of 

 the infested res-ion were concentrated in these woods durino; 

 the tirst of the autumn before the leaves had fallen from the 

 trees, and again in December, when the snow fall made the 

 inspection of outer towns and careful cleaning work there 

 unprofitable. During the winter of 1896-97 the work should 

 be pushed to the utmost in these woods, otherwise there is 

 danger that considerable injury may be done in the metro- 



