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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



List of Cities and Towns still infested. 



During the season of 1894 fewer reports of the presence 

 of supposed gypsy moths have been received from towns 

 outside the infested region than in previous years. Yet 

 some of these cases have been given such wide publicity 

 that an erroneous impression of the spreading of the gypsy 

 moth has been created. A citizen finds some insect injuring 

 his orchard which bears some fancied resemblance to the 

 gypsy moth. He immediately rushes into print with his dis- 

 covery, and the local paper at once announces that "the 

 gypsy moth has eluded the vigilance of the moth hunters, 

 and has begun its ravages in this town." Such statements 

 are widely copied and given out as facts. All cases of the 

 kind which have come directly or indirectly to our notice 

 have been investigated. In every instance the depredations 

 noticed have been attributable to some other insect, and in 

 no case has any evidence of the presence of the gypsy moth 

 been found. 



Towns and Cities that have been falsely reported as infested by the 



Gypsy Moth in 1894. 



