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regular employee was stationed on Long Island during the year to inspect and 
certify plant material moved from Nassau County. When shipping was heavy 
he was assisted by another experienced employee, and during slack periods he 
checked the scouting work performed by Civilian Conservation Corps camp per- 
sonnel supervised by the New York Department of Conservation. No infestation 
was found in the shipments inspected or while checking Civilian Conservation 
Corps camp work. Employees of the New York Department of Conservation 
and the Civilian Conservation Corps camp force supervised by that depart- 
ment scouted selected areas in Washington, Rennselaer, Columbia, Dutchess 
and Putnam Counties within the barrier zone ; Essex, Warren, Ulster, and 
Broome Counties west of that zone ; Westchester County and the Borough of the 
Bronx to the south of the zone ; and Queens. Nassau, and Suffolk Counties on 
Long Island. As a result of this work 3 infestations totaling 7 egg clusters were 
found in Columbia County. 16 infestations totaling 97 egg clusters in Dutchess 
County, 1 infestation of 6 egg clusters in Westchester County, 25 infestations 
totaling 127 egg clusters in the Bronx, and 24 infestations totaling 237 egg 
clusters in Nassau County. During the spraying season 13 acres were sprayed 
in Columbia County, 320 acres in Dutchess County, 30 acres in the Bronx, and 
748 acres in Nassau County. 
Work in New Jersey consisted of intensive scouting of selected areas in 
Morris, Somerset, Hunterdon, Union, and Essex Counties and selective thinning 
of favored-food species at sites of previously located infestations in Morris 
County. No infestation was discovered as a result of this work. 
Ninety-five relief workers, furnished and paid by the works division of the 
relief boards of Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties, Pa., who assisted with the 
spraying during June 1935, were continued on this project until July 18 to assist 
in returning and cleaning spraying equipment, storing supplies, and patrolling 
burlap bands and destroying caterpillars found under them. The Works 
Progress Administration force started work about the middle of August. They 
performed scouting, creosoting, and burlapping work and selective thinning of 
favored-food species in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Carbon. Lehigh, Monroe, Pike, 
Wayne, and Wyoming Counties. First attention was given to scouting the low- 
lands along the Susquehanna and Lackawanna Rivers from Scranton to and 
beyond Wilkes-Barre. Only 4 infestations, aggregating 16 egg clusters, were 
found, and they were thoroughly treated. Spraying in residential areas in the 
Lackawanna and Susquehanna River valleys in Lackawanna and Luzerne Coun- 
ties was started on May 20, 1936. Thirty-two high-powered sprayers were em- 
ployed. Woodland spraying of the most serious infestations discovered during 
the year was begun on June 1 and was discontinued on July 3. Inspection and 
certification work in Pennsylvania increased, and 39,970 shipments were in- 
spected during the year. This increase was due chiefly to the large amount of 
field stone and lumber used on local emergency-relief projects. The State of 
Pennsylvania allotted §60,000 for gypsy moth work during their fiscal year, 
which commenced on June 1, 1935, and terminated on May 31, 1936. 
GYPSY MOTH WORK BY CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS CAMPS 
The supervision of gypsy moth work in certain Civilian Conservation Corps 
camps has continued. Its object was to protect the barrier zone from reinfes- 
tation and to decrease as much as possible the infestation in the area roughly 
bounded on the east by the Connecticut River and on the west by the zone itself. 
This work has increased over that of the previous year, when 18 camps were 
involved and an average of 428 men were used. The maximum during the 
present fiscal year was 52 camps and 2,300 men. At the end of the year this 
work was conducted from 30 camps and about 1,500 men were allotted. All of 
these camps are operated by the Forest Service, except one which is handled by 
the Department of the Interior. With the decrease in the number of camps it 
has been necessary to reduce the supervision, so that there are now 15 senior 
foremen, 15 foremen, 45 junior foremen, and 43 squad foremen assigned to this 
work. The squad foremen are enrolled in the camps and have been promoted 
to these positions on the basis of their interest and fitness to do the work. Two 
field supervisors have been designated to inspect the work done by the camp per- 
sonnel in the field and to make contacts with the camp superintendents and 
State and Federal officials. These camps ate in the western part of New 
Hampshire, the eastern part of Vermont, and the territory east of Berkshire 
County in Massachusetts, extending to, and in some cases beyond, the Connecti- 
cut River, and east of Litchfield County and beyond the Connecticut River in 
Connecticut. 
