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CATERPILLARS!! 



The Selectmen of Claremont will pay 

 Five Cents a Quart for this year's Co- 

 coons of the Forest Tent Caterpillar, 

 gathered in Claremont, during the next 

 ten days. 



Cocoons must be delivered at the 

 Selectmen's Room, Town Hall, between 

 the hours of 5 and 6 in the afternoon 

 of any week day during said time 



There is the utmost need that the public should 

 awake to the danger that threatens the trees from 

 this pest. The destruction of woodland and of shade 

 trees seems imminent unless some way of killing the 

 caterpUlars is devised.. At the present time this year's 

 caterpillars are beginning'to go into cocoons. They 

 remain in this state about ten days, when a moth is 

 hatched from the cocoon. This moth lays from 200 

 to 300 eggs, each of which becomes a caterpillar to 

 ravage the trees next summer. 



Let all good citizens understand that each cocoon is 

 a source of very great injury: and that every cocoon 

 destroyed will aid in the preservation of trees which 

 cannot ^e spared. 



Let young and old join in the work of gathering co- 

 coons. It is for the direct benefit of the town that 

 this should be done. 



A. C. STONE, ) Selectmen 



C. A. FISHER, of 



W. T. FREEMAN, ) Claremont. 



Claremont, N.H., June 20, 1899. 



Facsimile of hand-bill offering bounty for cocoons. 



