cll'SY MOTH WORK IN NEW ENGLAND. 
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ticut. Accordingly early in the spring arrangements were made to 
place tanglefoot bands on trees in all the colonies about three towns 
wide along the border and from the time this work began the greater 
part of the scouting force was transferred to the work of applying 
and patrolling these bands. 
In the colony in Westchester County, N. Y., 6,000 tanglefoot and 
4,000 burlap bands were applied by the inspectors of the State depart- 
ment of agriculture. The State purchased a high-power spraying 
machine and very thoroughly sprayed the infested area and surround- 
ings. The colony in Ohio was similarly treated by the State officials, 
and in both cases excellent results have been secured. This office has 
kept in constant touch with the work in these States and has also had 
a representative directing the work in the Berkshire Hills infestations 
in Great Barrington, Stockbridge, and Lenox. 
Inasmuch as many of the new infestations were found on apple 
trees during the winter, a record has been kept of all such trees 
inspected and of the number of miles of roads scouted by the men. 
This information is given in the following table: 
Table V. — Results of scouting operations for the gipsy moth. 
State. 
Towns 
scouted. 
Colonies 
found. 
Egg clus- 
ters found. 
Apple trees 
inspected. 
Miles of 
road trav- 
eled. 
Tanglefoot 
bands ap- 
plied. 
155 
73 
36 
19 
13 
764,081 
1,354,908 
484, 731 
232, 190 
332,036 
4; 768 
4,334 
2,553 
987 
884 
New Hampshire 
1,656 
794 
1309 
U57 
25,427 
11,987 
1207 
i 124 
68,336 
58,315 
5,324 
4,767 
Total 
296 
2,916 
37, 745 
3,167,946 
13,526 
136,742 
i In a number of these colonies pupa cases only were found. 
The following conditions found in 1913 and in 1914 are of interest. 
In New Hampshire no egg clusters were found in 198 of the colonies 
that had been treated during the previous years, and in 641 of the 
1,656 colonies found in the winter of 1913 no larvae were found in the 
spring of 1914. In Massachusetts no egg clusters were found in 68 
of the colonies that were treated during the winter of 1912-13, and in 
124 of the 794 colonies located in the fall of 1913 no larvae were found 
in the spring of 1914. In Rhode Island 276 of the 309 colonies found 
and treated in the fall of 1913 failed to produce larvae in the spring of 
1914. In Connecticut 136 of the 157 colonies treated in 1913 failed 
to produce larvae the following spring. 
During the summer of 1914 woodland scouting was carried on in 
Thompson, Conn., and Rutland, Mass. The former town is heavily 
wooded and is reported to contain about 30,000 acres of forest, a con- 
siderable part of which is oak growth. As a result of the examina- 
tion of the woodland in this town 73 gipsy-moth colonies were discov- 
ered. All of them were small infestations, indicating that the species 
is established and is well scattered through the woodland. 
