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duties. During that day, when the scout is showing the crew the 
Ribes plots, he could act as foreman, while the regular foreman 
could scout other sections. 
If a scout knows a territory thoroughly, it may not be neces- 
sary for him to run parallel strips on his scout work. In such a 
case, he would scout effectively the places where he knows Ribes are 
liable to be found, and only roughly cover the other areas. For 
instance, in a territory where there are no skunk currants and 
practically no gooseberries on the dry hardwood ridges, he would 
confine most of his efforts in scouting the lowlands, along stream 
valleys, little runs, and hillside swamps. To check himself, he 
would occasionally run a strip along the ridge. 
Where Ribes are very few and grow more or less in definite 
places, as in swamps, a method has been tried out, more or less 
successfully, where the whole crew scout in line formation with 
spaces of about 50 to 100 feet between the men. Here the lineman 
uses a compass for running his line, and does not mark it in any 
definite way. The men run a strip across the area to a definite 
boundary, and then return on the next strip, continuing in this man- 
ner until the whole section is covered. If Ribes are found, the line- 
men mark their lines, and the whole crew closes in and pull the 
bushes. As soon as these Ribes are eradicated, the line is 
re-established, and the crew continue on their strip. 
During October Mr. Kimball scouted over 1160 acres in the 
town of Kittery, outside of and adjacent to the eradication area, at 
a cost of a little less than nine cents per acre, taking out the small 
groups of Ribes, and marking the larger groups for crew 
eradication. 
ERADICATION AREAS 
The Brunswick-Bath area was the only area on which eradica- 
tion work was done this year, with the exception of the checking 
work on areas already gone over in whole or in part at Alfred and 
Kittery Point. . 
A portion of the Brunswick area was eradicated in 1918, but the 
greater part was done during the present field season. A section 
of some 1200 acres in West Bath was selected as a demonstration 
eradication area. It comprised practically all types recognized in 
the eradication work, and has great variations in topography, 
ranging from sea-level swamps and salt marshes to precipitous 
ridges. 
