28 BULLETIN 204, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
GENERAL RESULTS SHOWN BY SCOUTING WORK. 
The scouting work for the season has shown very encouraging 
results. In addition to the large number of towns along the outside 
border where the infestation has been greatly reduced or where it has 
been cleaned out during the past year, an excellent showing has been 
made in a number of badly infested towns in Massachusetts and New 
Hampshire which are just inside the border. In a large number of 
these towns which were found severely infested in the winter of 
1912-13, a large decrease in the number of egg clusters has been found 
this year. In the town of Bradford, N. H., where over 3,000 egg 
clusters were treated during the former year, only 200 were found this' 
season. In Hillsboro the records show a reduction of from 8,000 to 
500, although the number of small colonies, many containing a single 
egg cluster, has increased. In Hemiiker and Warner, N. EL, a large 
decrease has also been noted and the same is generally true in the 
border towns where work is being carried on. 
The work on the tanglefoot bands during the entire season gave 
very gratifying results, and a very large number of the colonies where 
caterpillars were present early in the season showed no caterpillars 
or pupae at the close of the work on tanglefoot bands on August 1. 
Only a few caterpillars were found in the western part of the area in 
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. 
No caterpillars were found in Lenox, Stockbridge, or Great Bar- 
rington, Mass. About 400 yards from the old infested area in the 
latter town 43 egg clusters were found in a rock heap during the cater- 
pillar season which, of course, w r as under the snow when scouting 
work was done. Some very thorough work was done at this infesta- 
tion, and only one pupa was found this season. Of course there is 
danger of some spread from it, and during the coming season some 
very thorough scouting will be done in this vicinity. 
No caterpillars were found at TValhngford, Conn., this season. . 
In the badly infested woodland colony in Orange, Mass., where 
some 1,000 egg clusters were located, there were but 1,182 larvae 
found during the summer. 
The spraying work during the summer gave very satisfactory 
results, treatment being applied in border towns from Hubbardston, 
Mass., as far north as Andover, N. H. Many of the localities where 
spraying was applied were difficult to reach on account of being 
inaccessible from roads or water supply, but owing to the careful plans 
made by the foremen the work was not greatly handicapped on this 
account. In a number of cases the owners of the areas which were 
infested offered every cooperation possible in facilitating treatment. 
A few cases have been found, however, where spraying could not be 
attempted on account of the unwillingness of the owners to have their 
pasture trees treated because the grass was needed for grazing stock. 
In instances of this sort the infestations were cared for by creosoting 
egg clusters and destroying the caterpillars under tanglefoot bands. 
