WORK BY THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 47 



The work of the Bureau of Entomology in Massachusetts, there- 

 fore, has been practically independent of the state work, except that 

 a hearty spirit of cooperation lias always existed between the two 

 offices. In Maine the state appropriations have not been sufficient 

 to finance an active campaign against the insect throughout the 

 year, and a system of cooperation has been established between this 

 office and the Maine department of agriculture, so that the work 

 can be continued uninterruptedly. In Xew Hampshire, owing to 

 the small appropriations made by the State, the greater part of the 

 work has been carried on by the Bureau of Entomology, the state funds 

 being used for urgent calls which it was impossible for this office to 

 attend to. Practically the same conditions hold in Rhode Island as in 

 Maine, while in Connecticut most of the work has been carried on by 

 the State, and the Bureau of Entomology has furnished only such 

 assistance as was deemed necessary to supplement the local work at 

 Stonington and Wallingford. A summary of the work done in the 

 New England States is given herewith. 



WORK BY THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



During the past five 4 years the State of Massachusetts has appro- 

 priated SI, f 95, 000 for the purpose of controlling the gipsy and 

 brown-tail moths, and an additional sum of $75,000 has been expended 

 in an attempt to introduce their parasites and natural enemies. The 

 money has been used, in the main, in reimbursing cities and towns 

 in the infested parts of the State which have expended more than was 

 required by the gipsy moth law. A small part of the appropriation 

 has of course been used for maintenance and supervision of the 

 work, and the central office has adopted a system of inspection of 

 the city and town work in order that uniform standards might be 

 enforced and useless expenditures prevented! The men employed as 

 agents and inspectors by the central office have had long experience 

 in fighting these pests, many of them having served when the work 

 was under the direction of the state board of agriculture. 



The amount of money expended by the different cities ami towns 

 affected has about equaled that appropriated by the State, while 

 many private property owners and state commissions (such as the 

 Metropolitan Water and Sewage Board and the Metropolitan Park 

 and State 1 1 ighway Commissions) have expended large sums of money, 

 so that the amount expended annually, exclusive o( that spent by the 

 Federal Government, has averaged about $750,000 to $800,000. 



The result of the work has been to reduce greatly the infestation 

 in the residential sections. This has not been accomplished, how- 

 ever, without vigorous application of all the best-known methods of 

 fighting the pests. Spraying has been carried on in a wholesale way, 

 and at the present time most of the infested towns have purchased 



