GYPSY MOTH. 773 



the character of the region, a dense grove of tall oak, hickory and 

 other trees, which grow among rocks and boulders, making it 

 difficult to control the pest should it once gain a foothold. Much 

 searching was done here in addition to the regular work of exam- 

 ining bands. The men climbed the trees perhaps a dozen times 

 during the summer, and in this way many of the caterpillars were 

 found and- destroyed. 



All of the coniferous trees and part of the apple trees and 

 ornamental shrubbery on the Stanton place, some shrubs of 

 Japanese quince at Mr. Darrell's, the bushes near the water at 

 Mr. Simmons', small fruit trees and Boston ivy at Mr. Koelb's 

 and the quince bushes at Mrs. Thatcher's were sprayed with lead 

 arsenate (three to five pounds in fifty gallons of water), thirty 

 pounds of the poison being used. Mr. HoUister observed dead 

 and dying caterpillars a few days after the applications. "Tree 

 Tanglefoot" was applied to the trunks of the evergreens and 

 apple trees adjoining in order to prevent the caterpillars from 

 crawling up or down, about twelve pounds of this material being 

 used. 



Scouting for Egg-Masses. 



All trees, and many of the fences, stone walls and buildings 

 within the infested area were examined for egg-masses during the 

 winter. A careful search was made around the places where 

 caterpillars were taken during the preceding summer, and seventy- 

 three egg-masses were found and destroyed by soaking them with 

 creosote. Most of the scouting was done by Messrs. HoUister, 

 Norman and McDermott, and before April ist this was finished 

 and HoUister and Norman had worked about two weeks around 

 Hartford. Mr. HoUister had also visited several towns in the 

 northeastern part of the state. According to agreement, Mr. 

 Rogers furnished help to scout the infested region after it had 

 been examined by our men, but on account of the great amount 

 of work done in Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire, he 

 could send only one man, Mr. G. D. Whitehead, who worked in 

 Connecticut during the month of April, first going over the Ston- 

 ington infested territory with Mr. HoUister (finding nine egg- 

 masses), and then with him scouting the road to New London 

 and then from New Haven to Hartford. 



The scouting done outside of Stonington may perhaps be best 

 described by the following notes by Mr. HoUister. 



