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severely. Apple trees are in a leafless state also. The same 

 condition prevails across the lake in Bridgton." 



July 23. N. Waterford, Oxford County. "I am sending you 

 worms that belong to an army which are destroying all the hard- 

 wood save the poplars within about seven miles of here. Last 

 year they started to eat in the town of Sweden cleaning up the 

 woods so that with the exception of the poplars and evergreens 

 they looked as bare as in late fall. This year they ate every- 

 thing that leaved out in the old neighborhood and began to move 

 toward us through the woods in great quantities. They are 

 moving half a mile a day. They seem to crowd along the 

 ground in swarms as soon as they strip one section of woods."" 



July 23. Bethel, Oxford County. "The worms have eaten 

 the leaves all off about 500 cords of wood and they are so thick 

 they can be gathered by the bushel." 



July 23. Hiram, Oxford County. "I send you specimen of 

 a worm that is eating the hardwood growth, stripping the trees 

 over thousands of acres in a place." 



July 24. N. Leeds, Androscoggin County. "Forests look as 

 though a fire had swept through." 



July 24. Freeport, Cumberland County. "Beech trees seem 

 to fare the worst." 



July 24. Shapleigh, York County. "A caterpillar that is 

 destroying acres of woodland and apple trees." 



July 27. Wiscasset, Lincoln County. "I am sending you 

 green worms which have stripped the beeches and yellow birches 

 completely and have nearly stripped the white birch and are 

 now beginning on the maple." 



July 28. Sebago Lake, Cumberland County. "They are eat- 

 ing beeches, oaks and birches. White maple and sugar maple 

 have escaped so far. They begin at the- top of the tree and 

 work down until there isn't a leaf left upon the tree, they then 

 drop to the ground with a thud and crawl to some other tree. 

 The woods are full of them on the ground and they are travel- 

 ing at a fearful rate." 



July 29. Ross Corner, York County; "The Prominent (H. 

 guttivitta) is doing the most damage, the, one I send you on oak 

 (Anisota virginiensis) comes next and the maple leaf caterpillar 

 (A. rubicunda) last. Probably ioo acres of trees are all bare." 



July 31. So. Paris, Oxford County. "They seem to prefer 



