Concord, Mass.
1914.
March 17
to
May 31.
(No 11)

  The worst infested (by gypsy larvae) spots this year are the northern
portions of our Berry Pastures, the oaks in the run bordering on the 
Ritchie place and those in the opening behind Ball's Hill. Those
on Blakemore Ridge are also bad. Ball's Hill itself is
almost free from the "gyps" [gypsy moth] & quite so from brown tails [brown-tail moth]. Where
the former raged most last year as in Birch Field there are few
or none now. Elsewhere in Concord the oak woods look better
than for several years past even where they have had no protection.
Dr. Howard thinks that the worst is over as regards "gyps" [gypsy moth] & "brown tails." [brown-tail moth]
  Tent caterpillars were worse last year than I have ever
before known them. They were still more numerous this spring
fairly loading apple & [?] cherry trees with their repulsive "tents"
and stripping all foliage of those & other trees where they were left
unmolested. I saved all our fruit trees & most of the wild
cherries by timely spraying. Forest tent caterpillars were bad in spots
but on the whole no worse than last year.