GYPSY MOTH WORK. 



3" 



State. Area Infested. 



Connecticut i square mile 



Maine 228 " miles 



Massachusetts 3,000 " " 



Rhode Island 25 " " 



New Hampshire 1,500 " " 



United States 



Total. 4,754 



Appropriation. 



$ 10,000 (biennial) 



30,000 (annual) 



300,000 (biennial) 



10,000 (annual) 



25,000 (biennial) 



150,000 (annual) 



$525,000 



In addition to the amounts given in the preceding table, the 

 laws of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, require that 

 individual owners, town and municipal authorities, take measures, 

 when necessary, to suppress these pests i)n their own property, 

 or that under their charge, the expenditures not to exceed a 

 certain low percentage of the assessed valuation of the property. 

 On proof that this has been properly done by cities and towns, 

 the commonwealth may reimburse the cities and towns for a 

 certain proportion of such stims expended in accordance with the 

 law. In this respect, the laws of Maine and New Hampshire are 

 based on the Massachusetts law, but in Rhode Island and Con- 

 necticut the suppression work is done entirely by state and 

 government authorities, city, town, and private owners not being 

 obliged to act, because extermination and not mere suppression 

 is the end in view. Should these states ever become generally 

 infested, a measure similar to that in Massachusetts would be 

 necessary to control the pest, and would doubtless be enacted. 

 In addition to the $300,000 appropriated by the Massachusetts 

 I Legislature, the sum of $25,000 was made available for experi- 

 mental work on parasites of gypsy and brown-tail moths. Thus 

 according to Superintendent Kirkland the money expended by 

 the state, by towns and individual owners in the work of sup- 

 pressing the gypsy and brown-tail moths in Massachusetts in 

 1907, amounted to a total of nearly three-quarters of a million 

 dollars. 



Introduction of Parasites. 



Many species of parasites of gypsy and brown-tail moths have 

 been introduced into Massachusetts by Dr. L. O. Howard in 

 cooperation with Mr. Kirkland. Dr. Howard has made three 

 annual trips to Europe and enlisted the aid of European ento- 



