Concord, Mass.
1911.
June 16
[June 16, 1911]

Moth conditions
Carlisle way.

  Forenoon sunny; afternoon cloudy with two heavy showers.
This forenoon J. C. Melvin took me first to Concord
village, next to Carlisle village by way of the Middlesex
School and finally back to the Farm by the easterly
road on which we live (Monument Street). The woods
along the Assabet for at least a mile above its mouth are badly damaged
by moth pests and all the way through to Carlisle
Village they are, for the most part, well-nigh stripped
of foliage as are many orchards, also. On the return
ride by the more easterly road we found similar
condition[s] almost to the Concord line this side 
of which the woods showed little or no danger
while the orchard trees exhibited none at all[.]
Mr. Robbins told me that the situation in Carlisle
is far worse than it has ever been before. In our
part of Concord it is better than for three years past.