SPRUCE BUDWORM AND WHITE PINE WEEVIL 147 
Company. The 
trip was made 
by automobile 
from Lily Bay 
on Moosehead 
Lake, to the foot 
of Chesuncook 
Lake, thence by 
boat, canoe and 
on foot through 
Chesuncook 
Lake, Round 
Pond and Telos 
Lake. By this 
route observa- 
tions were made 
in some thirteen 
townships and 
included a vari- 
ety of conditions. 
Without doubt 
the greatest 
amount of dam- 
age encountered 
on this trip was 
to be observed in 
the forests at 
each side of the 
road _ between 
Lily Bay and 
Ripogenus Dam 
in the holdings 
of the Great 
Northern Paper 
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GROWING SPRUCE. 
These trees left on the edge of a yard as under- 
sized ten. years ago when cutting to a limit of ten 
inches breast height, are now fourteen inches in 
diameter breast height. Photo by Maine Forestry Dept. 
Company. In certain localities, often of considerable extent, prac- 
tically every fir, red spruce, and hemlock of any considerable size 
had been killed and most of the younger trees down to a height of 
only a few feet, were either killed or badly injured and distorted. 
The occasional white spruces seemed to have escaped with no injury 
or with only minor damages. Indeed, throughout the entire area 
examined, the white spruces seemed to possess some degree of 
