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THE GYPSY MOTH. 



in eastern Massachusetts. A large frame containing in addi- 

 tion to the bulletin a photograph of the moth's ravages, and 

 having a specimen case attached, was placed in the main post- 

 office of each city or town in the infested district. 



In 1891 a bulletin of information in regard to spraying for 

 the gypsy moth and other insects was printed in pamphlet 

 form and distributed through the infested district. Some 

 fifty thousand copies of the law of 1891, providing for the 

 extermination of the gypsy moth, together with the rules and 

 regulations under which the work is conducted, have been 

 printed and distributed among the people of the infested 

 district and in towns near by. The law and the rules and 

 regulations were also printed in poster form and posted in 

 many public places. Many placards containing certain sec- 

 tions of the law were also printed and posted. Each season 

 from twenty thousand to twenty-five thousand copies of the 

 annual report on the gypsy moth (each with a colored plate 

 of the insect) have been printed for distril^utiou, in addition 

 to the nine hundred copies annually printed for the use of the 

 Legislature. Circular letters, calling the attention of citizens 

 to the threatening danger from the invasion of the moth, 

 have been printed and sent with or without the reports to 

 newspapers and citizens throughout the State. Lectures on 

 the gyps}^ moth and the means of its extermination have been 

 given by the secretar}^ of the Board of Agriculture, the ento- 

 mologist and the director. Other speakers have frequently 

 spoken on the same subject at farmers' institutes and other 

 meetings. 



When the Massachusetts exhibit at the World's Columbian 

 Exposition at Chicago was being prepared, the committee 

 in charge requested the Board of Agriculture to prepare an 

 exhibit for the exposition. This was done, and the exhibit 

 occupied a central place in the Massachusetts building at the 

 fair. It consisted of a glass case seven feet in- height, contain- 

 ing a representation of an apple tree denuded of its leaves 

 by the gypsy-moth caterpillars, and exhibiting on its trunk 

 and branches all forms of the moth, together with many of 

 the vertebrate and invertebrate enemies of the moth, includ- 

 ing birds, fowls, predaceous beetles and parasites. Pho- 

 tographs showing the destructiveness of the moth were 



