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reservation, has year after year employed men in trimming- 

 out the undergrowth in the infested woods and destroying 

 the caterpillars by burning, burlapping and spraying. He 

 has also destroyed a great number of eggs. During the 

 past summer several men in his employ have been engaged 

 on his estate in killing caterpillars under burlaps in infested 

 woodland, and have much reduced the number of caterpil- 

 lars in these localities. Mr. Walter Wright, whose estate 

 is neither so large nor so much infested as that of General 

 Lawrence, has treated many egg-clusters upon both his home 

 and woodland property, and has burlapped the trees, employ- 

 ing a man in killing caterpillars under the burlap. Mr. 

 Samuel Hawkes, who owns a large tract of infested wood- 

 land in Saugus, has spent much time in searching for the- 

 gypsy moth in these woodlands, and has cut some tracts of 

 infested trees. He has also given the agents of the Board 

 information which has been of assistance to them in their 

 work. Mr. Schlesinger, w^ho owns a large estate in Brook- 

 line, on which a colony of moths was found this year, has 

 directed his gardener and the men under him to assist the 

 agents of the Board in every way possible, and these men 

 destroyed many of the difierent forms of the moth and 

 assisted in other ways. The gentlemen who have given 

 most assistance, as described above, are owners of large 

 property, and are better able to protect their estates from the 

 ravages of the moth than are most of our farmers and other 

 owners of smaller or less valuable holdings. The poor man 

 who rents or owns a small place has neither time nor means 

 to check the ravages of the moth ; and a farmer ^yith an 

 orchard, garden and many acres of woodland would better 

 give up his home at once than spend his substance in fight- 

 ing the gypsy moth. 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. H. FORBUSH. 



