Photo from U. S. Dcpartniom of .\i;iicullur^ 

 INTERIOR OF PARASITE BREEDING SHED WHERE ONE MILLION TINY ELIES WERE 

 REARED IN I913: INIELROSE HIGHLANDS, MASS. (SEE TEXT, PAGE 66") 



In woodlands where the oaks predomi- 

 nate, however, the problem is a much 

 more serious one and may mean ultimate 

 reforestation. 



In reaching the present rather promis- 

 ing situation, an enormous amount of 

 work has been done. It must be realized 

 that when, after a period of five years, 

 the State of Massachusetts began once 

 more, in 1905, to attempt to check the 

 gipsy-moth, conditions within the infested 

 territory were almost unlivable. The or- 

 chards and the shade trees were dying, 

 the parks and the dooryards were stripped 

 of all kinds of foliage in June, the wooded 

 hillsides were brown when they should 

 have been green, and in the villages and 

 towns during the latter part of May and 

 through June caterpillars were crawling 

 everywhere — on the sidewalks, on the 

 sides of houses, and even into houses. 

 Methods of hand destruction were used 



in all of the infested towns. The new 

 State law provided in general that each 

 town should do its own work and should 

 be recompensed by the State to the ex- 

 tent of one-half or more of the amount 

 expended. 



CONGRESS DECIDES TO HELP 



When the moth began to spread be- 

 yond the boundaries of Massachusetts 

 the Congress of the United States was 

 importuned to make appropriations. By 

 this time it had become evident that ex- 

 termination was out of the question with- 

 out the expenditure of enormous sums of 

 money, and appropriations were subse- 

 quently made by Congress, not to attempt 

 extermination, but to prevent, if possible, 

 the further spread of both the gipsy-moth 

 and the brown-tail moth. 



The female of the gipsy-moth does not 

 fly; its body is too heavy (see page 50) ; 



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