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  WORK 
  ABANDONED. 
  9 
  

  

  The 
  efficient 
  work 
  which 
  was 
  carried 
  on 
  by 
  the 
  Massachusetts 
  State 
  

   Board 
  of 
  Agriculture 
  during 
  the 
  early 
  nineties 
  rendered 
  the 
  con- 
  

   tinuance 
  of 
  vehicle 
  inspection 
  unnecessary, 
  as 
  the 
  moth 
  had 
  been 
  

   greatly 
  reduced 
  in 
  numbers 
  and 
  very 
  few 
  badly 
  infested 
  localities 
  

   could 
  be 
  found. 
  At 
  the 
  time 
  the 
  work 
  was 
  abandoned 
  in 
  1900, 
  34 
  

   towns 
  and 
  cities 
  surrounding 
  Boston 
  were 
  slightly 
  infested. 
  A 
  few 
  

   isolated 
  colonies 
  were 
  present 
  outside 
  of 
  the 
  limits 
  of 
  this 
  area, 
  but 
  

   in 
  most 
  cases 
  these 
  had 
  been 
  reduced 
  almost 
  to 
  the 
  point 
  of 
  ex- 
  

   termination, 
  and 
  in 
  several 
  colonies 
  none 
  of 
  the 
  insects 
  had 
  been 
  

   found 
  for 
  two 
  or 
  more 
  years, 
  in 
  spite 
  of 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  careful 
  examina- 
  

   tions 
  were 
  made 
  annually. 
  It 
  should 
  be 
  said 
  that 
  very 
  little 
  if 
  any 
  

   of 
  the 
  territory 
  in 
  the 
  infested 
  area 
  was 
  what 
  would 
  be 
  considered 
  

   now 
  as 
  badly 
  infested, 
  and 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  thorough 
  manner 
  in 
  which 
  

   the 
  work 
  was 
  prosecuted 
  the 
  danger 
  of 
  spread 
  was 
  reduced 
  to 
  a 
  

   minimum. 
  

  

  CONTROL 
  WORK 
  ABANDONED. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  winter 
  of 
  1900 
  suppression 
  measures 
  were 
  abandoned 
  by 
  the 
  

   State 
  of 
  Massachusetts, 
  but 
  during 
  the 
  next 
  five 
  years 
  considerable 
  

   individual 
  effort 
  was 
  expended 
  to 
  protect 
  the 
  trees 
  in 
  the 
  residential 
  

   sections, 
  particularly 
  by 
  owners. 
  The 
  infestation 
  became 
  so 
  serious, 
  

   however, 
  in 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  1904, 
  and 
  the 
  depredations 
  of 
  this 
  insect 
  

   were 
  so 
  severe, 
  ow 
  T 
  ing 
  to 
  its 
  remarkable 
  increase 
  in 
  numbers, 
  that 
  

   action 
  was 
  taken 
  by 
  the 
  State 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1905, 
  and 
  money 
  pro- 
  

   vided 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  affording 
  relief 
  and 
  preventing 
  the 
  destruc- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  trees 
  in 
  towns 
  and 
  cities 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  of 
  attempting 
  to 
  control 
  

   the 
  moth 
  throughout 
  the 
  infested 
  area. 
  

  

  The 
  State 
  force 
  was 
  organized 
  by 
  Supt. 
  A. 
  H. 
  Kirkland, 
  and 
  con- 
  

   ditions 
  in 
  the 
  territory, 
  which 
  was 
  the 
  central 
  part 
  of 
  that 
  which 
  was 
  

   infested 
  when 
  the 
  work 
  was 
  stopped, 
  are 
  well 
  described 
  by 
  the 
  follow- 
  

   ing 
  extract 
  from 
  his 
  first 
  annual 
  report. 
  1 
  

  

  As 
  would 
  have 
  been 
  expected, 
  during 
  the 
  year 
  1900 
  and 
  1901 
  but 
  little 
  notable 
  

   damage 
  was 
  caused 
  by 
  the 
  gipsy 
  moth, 
  although 
  evidence 
  was 
  not 
  wanting 
  to 
  

   the 
  trained 
  observer 
  thai 
  it 
  was 
  rapidly 
  multiplying 
  in 
  woodlands 
  and 
  on 
  

   neglected 
  private 
  estates. 
  It 
  was 
  apparent 
  that 
  nonresident 
  property 
  owners 
  

   particularly 
  paid 
  practically 
  no 
  attention 
  to 
  the 
  increase 
  of 
  the 
  insect 
  and 
  that 
  

   farmers 
  and 
  others 
  owning 
  infested 
  woodland 
  areas 
  were 
  unwilling, 
  because 
  of 
  

   the 
  expense, 
  to 
  fight 
  the 
  insect. 
  In 
  1902 
  numerous 
  estates 
  were 
  severely 
  injured 
  

   throughout 
  the 
  central 
  district, 
  while 
  woodland 
  colonies 
  of 
  some 
  magnitude 
  had 
  

   developed 
  from 
  which 
  the 
  insects 
  were 
  swarming 
  in 
  all 
  directions. 
  The 
  summer 
  

   of 
  i 
  !)o;; 
  showed 
  thai 
  the 
  moth 
  had 
  established 
  itself 
  again 
  in 
  alarming 
  numbers 
  

  

  in 
  various 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  infested 
  district. 
  Serious 
  colonies 
  had 
  developed 
  in 
  the 
  

   woods 
  of 
  Arlington, 
  Medfortl. 
  S;ingus. 
  and 
  Maiden, 
  and 
  the 
  Lynn 
  Woods 
  colonies 
  

   had 
  assumed 
  notable 
  proportions. 
  In 
  1904 
  it 
  was 
  apparent 
  to 
  all 
  that 
  the 
  gipsy 
  

   moth 
  had 
  developed 
  t<> 
  a 
  remarkable 
  extent, 
  reinfested 
  the 
  areas 
  from 
  which 
  i! 
  

  

  had 
  been 
  cleared, 
  and 
  even 
  extended 
  its 
  hounds 
  into 
  previously 
  Qoninfested 
  

  

  1 
  First 
  Annua] 
  Report 
  of 
  tii" 
  Buperintendenl 
  i"«>r 
  Suppressing 
  the 
  Gipsy 
  and 
  Brown- 
  

   Tall 
  Moths, 
  1906, 
  p. 
  12. 
  

  

  