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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



SUMMAEY or THE YeAK'S WoRK. 



The iigures given annually in the table of the number of 

 each form of the moth destroyed are such as pertain only to 

 tlie results of hand labor. These may be misleading, as it is 

 quite probable that more moths have been destroyed by burn- 

 ing and spraying than by hand. Therefore, records of the 

 hand work done each year do not accurately indicate the 

 luimber of the different forms of the moth destroyed by all 

 methods during each year. The other figures give only 

 such results of labor as from their nature can be accurately 

 reported and tabulated. 



Some difierence in the figures from year to year is due to 

 the fact that, owing to the lack of adequate appropriations, 

 only a part of the territory can be examined and worked 

 over each year. Certain towns, for instance, are entirely 

 inspected one year, and the inspection is necessarily omitted 

 the next. 



Work Done. 



Trees (fruit, shade and forest) : — 



Inspected, 10,718,836 



Found to be infested with caterpillars, pupge, moths or eggs, 57,723 



In which cavities have been cemented or covered, . . 3,408 



