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then provisions of all and every kind will be so high that the people will 

 come upon the legislators for such a foolish thing as stopping a work 

 which is in such a condition that it is under control, and if not extermi- 

 nated, can be brought down to a condition where it can be handled by a 

 small force of men. 



The infested territory is divided into three divisions or sections, each 

 division has a superintendent, and he in turn has a force of men under 

 him to cope with the work in his particular territory. He divides his men 

 into gangs, with an inspector or foreman at its head. Over and above the 

 whole is a manager or field director with an assistant, and in the busy 

 caterpillar season they employ other men to oversee and report any neg- 

 ligence of work by the inspector or men. There are some very funny 

 and amusing features connected with it, and some of those contemptable 

 anonymous letter writers. For my part, I have never known any one to 

 write an anonymous letter to be other than a liar and a sneak. In the 

 Winter and early Spring the men destroy the clusters of eggs with creasote 

 and fire, when the larvae appears they spray with poisoned solutions. 

 Also place bands of burlap around and about the trees, and the men ex- 

 amine these every day and kill by hand the caterpillars which will con- 

 gregate under them. This is done by means of very course bagging 

 cutting into strips and wound about the trunk of the tree like a bandage, 

 about four or five feet from the ground, so you can readily see what a 

 gigantic undertaking it is, but for all that, it has been and is being done 

 most thoroughly. So how foolish for one day to stop this work because 

 some people who do not know what insects are other than BUGS, and 

 object to the public purse being drawn upon, and yet they, as a rule, 

 are the very ones who do not contribute one cent towards its support, 

 and some of them draw very heavily upon it (the public purse) as so- 

 called legislators. — H. G. White, Maiden, Mass. 



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Entomological Literature. 



I. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, 1894. — A proposed classification of the fossorial Hymenoptera 

 of North America, W. J. Fox. 



