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BULLETIN" 204, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
egg clusters were found. A considerable area was scouted around the 
infestation, and egg clusters or caterpillars were found over an area of 
about three-fourths of a square mile. Many of the trees were growing 
on rough and rocky soil, so that it was very difficult to do thorough 
work. About 15,000 egg clusters were treated during the month of May. 
In addition to the scouting work already mentioned, a special 
examination was made of the entire town of Geneva, N. Y., but no 
gipsy-moth egg clusters were found. In 1912 a small colony was 
found in this city. It has been very thoroughly treated by the 
assistants of the commissioner of agriculture, and it is now believed 
that the insect has been exterminated. The scouting party detailed 
for the Geneva work spent one week in examining trees in Seneca 
Park, Rochester, N. Y., but no traces of the moth could be found. 
Special scouting work was carried on in the towns of Lenox, Stock- 
bridge, and Great Barrington, Mass., during the winter. Infestations 
have previously been found in these towns, but the examination 
resulted in finding but one egg cluster in Great Barrington, one in 
Stockbridge, and two in Lenox, indicating that good results have been 
secured from the treatment which had been applied during the pre- 
vious season. A careful inspection was also made in the town of 
Wallingford, Conn., which was found infested some years ago, but no 
egg clusters were discovered. 
The following table shows the number of towns which have been 
scouted for the gipsy moth and the number of new towns which 
were found infested during the winter of 1913-14. 
Table IV. — Scouting operations for the gipsy moth during the winter of 1913-14. 
State. 
Towns 
scouted. 
Newly 
infested. 
Maine 
155 
73 
36 
19 
13 
3 
1 
81 
6 
7 
17 
10 
1 
1 
New Hampshire 
Massachusetts 
Rhode Island 
New York 
Ohio. .. 
In nine towns in New Hampshire and two in Massachusetts, infested 
in 1912-13, no infestations could be found the following winter, and 
recommendations were made that these towns be excluded from the 
quarantined area. This was approved by the Federal Horticultural 
Board, and the border towns of the area quarantined for the gipsy 
moth include only those that have been found infested during the 
past winter. 
The plan of the work has been to examine the territory in Maine 
chiefly for the purpose of securing data as to where the quarantine 
line should extend. It is impossible to prevent the spread of the 
small caterpillars by the wind, and it has therefore been deemed 
advisable to confine the clearing-up work along the border to the ter- 
ritory in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connec- 
