31 CONNECTICUT EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT, I907-I908. 



of the gypsy and brown-tail moths. First it declares these 

 insects to be a public nuisance. The state entomologist is 

 thereby given authority to employ the necessary help; to enter 

 any public or private grounds; to cut and burn brush and 

 worthless trees; to prune, scrape, spray or fill cavities in trees, 

 or clean up rubbish. Anyone wilfully hindering the suppression 

 work is subject to prosecution and a heavy fine. 



Anyone bringing these insects alive into the state, or from 

 an infested region within the state to a locality not hitherto 

 infested, is liable to be heavily fined and imprisoned, and it makes 

 no difference whether the insects are in the egg, caterpillars, 

 cocoon or adult stages. 



This law further provides an appropriation for carr3mig on 

 the work, and that the act take effect immediately upon its 

 passage. 



The text of the law with explanations was immediately printed 

 as Bulletin of Immediate Information No. 5, and a copy dis- 

 tributed at every house within the infested region, and was also 

 published in the local newspapers. 



Legislation axd Appropriations for Gypsy :Moth Work in 

 OTHER States. 



Connecticut was not alone in enacting new laws for the sup- 

 pression of the gypsy and brown-tail moths. In Maine and New 

 Hampshire, where such legislation did not previously exist, new 

 laws were passed in the winter or spring of 1907, giving 

 authority and appropriations for carrying on the work. In 

 Rhode Island, where a small appropriation had been made and 

 expended the preceding year, the law was renewed and strength- 

 ened and a much larger appropriation granted. In Massa- 

 chusetts, the state most seriously infested, the appropriation was 

 renewed. In addition to these state appropriations Congress 

 appropriated a large sum of money to be used by the Bureau 

 of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture 

 in cooperation with the authorities of the five infested states. 

 The following figures give the approximate area infested by the 

 gypsy moth and the amount appropriated for suppressing both 

 gypsy and brown-tail moths in each state: 



