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had transformed. All trees infested with caterpillars or egg masses 

 were marked, as is done in Massachusetts. A breeding cage was made 

 on the grounds, and in it were reared a number of adults for exhibi- 

 tion and illustrative purposes. During August a gang of laborers 

 was employed to cut and burn brush, and the hedgerows through some 

 of the fields were cleaned up. We interviewed the selectmen, inter- 

 ested them in our work, and they cooperated by cutting all the brush 

 along the highwa}^s through and for some distance beyond the 

 infested district. This brush was burned by our men. In four 

 places caterpillars transformed in the stone walls, and egg masses 

 were laid there. The walls were overhauled, eggs destroyed, and the 

 walls relaid. All work was suspended September 1 to enable us to 

 make the annual inspection of nurseries. Since November 16 five 

 men have been employed cutting and burning brush and scouting for 

 egg masses. 



It was necessary to do considerable educational work, and immedi- 

 ately Bulletin 153 was issued from the Connecticut Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station giving brief accounts of the gipsy and brown-tail 

 moths. Two. months later the annual report, containing a further 

 account of the gips} T moth, Avas distributed. Figures and brief 

 descriptions of the insect and its injuries were printed on cards 11 

 by 14 inches in size, and nearby 2,000 of these have been distributed 

 to schools. A number of life history sets in Biker mounts have been 

 placed in drug-store windows in Stonington, Mystic, Noank, Groton, 

 and New London. An illustrated lecture was given at New Haven 

 May 9 and at Stonington November 2G; specimens have been shown 

 and talks given about the insect in about a dozen meetings in various 

 other parts of the State. 



Scouting for egg masses was clone in April at Mystic, Midway, 

 New London, Plainfield, Danielson, Putnam, and Willimantic. 

 Nearly all portions of the State are visited during the year by some 

 member of the office force on the lookout for such things, but no 

 gipsy moths have been found anywhere outside of Stonington. 



Up to the present time the results obtained may be expressed by 

 the statistics in the following table : 



Egg masses laid in 1905 : 



Number destroyed 20 



Number hatched 36 



Egg masses laid in 1906, number destroyed 47 



Caterpillars destroyed 10, 000 



Pupre destroyed 47 



Number of trees banded, more than 1,300 



Amount of money expended $1,700 



A word as to funds: A few hundred dollars only could be spared 

 at that time from our State appropriation for insect work, and the 



