24 ANM AL REPORTS OF DKrAK l .MKNT ( )F ACJRICULTL'RP:, 1937 
This is especially true in the I'.ionx; and <»n Lon^; Island, where intensive 
exterminative measures have materially reduced infestation existing there. 
In the section of Nassau County under State ri'gulation on account of the 
gypsy moth. l.SO.'i shipments of nursery stock, wood products, etc., were 
inspected and certified as free from this insect during the year. 
The small force of W. 1'. A. workers employed in New Jersey jK'rformed in- 
tensive scouting work in selected areas in Kssex. Morris, I'assaic, Somerset, 
and Union Counties. Much of tliis work was done in the township of Mend- 
liam, Morris County, where a male gypsy moth was taken at an assembling 
cage during the summer of 103G. No infestation has heen fountl liere during 
the year. 
In Pennsylvania scouting work has l>een done in Lackawanna, Luzerne, 
Carbon, Monroe, Pike. Susquehanna, and Wayne Counties. Wherever infesta- 
tions liave been discovered intensive follow-up work has been done. The low- 
lands along the Lackawanna and Sus(iuehanna Rivers were scouted during the 
summer and fail when water in these rivers was low. On account of the 
serious tlood conditions in March li>3»', the lowlands bordering the Lacka- 
wanna River from Scrant()n to its continence with the Susquehanna River 
near Pittston and the Suscpiehanna liiver from the Ransom town line to the 
highway bridge at Nanticoke were examined, and this work was extended 
as far south as Sunbury. Six infestations were found. They were all within 
10 miles of Pittston and well within the area of known infestation. Al- 
though the river was examined for about 1(»0 miles on both sides, no evidence 
was found that the gypsy moth had been .spread by the Hood. Small isolated 
infestations outside of the State quarantined area were found in the town- 
ships of Clinton, Dyberry, and Lake in Wayne County, Clifton in Lackawanna 
County, and Chestnut Hill in Monroe County. The township of Clifton in 
Lackawanna County was included in the State quarantine effective July 1, 
1937, l)ut as the infestations discovered in the other towns were not considered 
difficult to eradicate or dangerous from the quarantine standiK^int, the four 
other towns referred to were not included in the new State quarantine. No 
egg clusters were found at sites of infestations discovered in 19o(> in the 
townships of South Canaan and Sterling in Wayne County, Greene in Pike 
County, and Lehigh in Carbon County, and it is believed that the infestations 
have been exterminated. A total of 80,198 shipments were insi)ected and 
certified before movement was permitted within or to points outside of the 
State quarantined area. In making these inspections 321 egg clusters and 
OG') larvae were located and destroyed. In spite of the numerous difficulties 
experienced since work in Pennsylvania was started, excellent progress has 
been made and the situation looks more hopeful each year. 
GYPSY MOTH WORK BY CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS CAMPS 
C. C. C. camps have continued to work on gypsy moth control under the 
supervision of the liureau. Their activities give protection to the gypsy moth 
barrier zone and reduce the danger of a westward spread of this in.sect. 
Throughout the year 282.497 6-hour man-days were used en this gyp.<:y moth 
work. This is a reduction of approximately ir» percent of the man-days avail- 
able during the previous year. At the end of the year, however, there was a 
decrease in the men available of approximately aO percent, which indicates a 
very serious reduction in the volume of work that can l)e done during the 
coming year. At the beginning of the year lA('i'> juniors and lo veterans were 
assigned to this work, but at the end of June 1937 only 733 juniors and 14 
veterans were available for it. With tliis reduc-tion the supervision was re- 
duced from 118 foremen at the beginning of tlie year to only at the end 
of tlie year. Some men were available at the end of the year from 20 
different camps in New Kngland. the number ranging fritm ;"> to as high as 
120 men in three camps in Massachus(>tts where the entire project is gypsy 
moth work. 
During the year gypsy ni«>th work by the C. C. C. was disconi inuc^l in New 
Hampshire. Decrease in i)ersonel availabh* for this proje<*t and regulations 
of tlM' Kmergency Conservation Work resulted in the work in this State be- 
c(uning isolated from the rest of the C. C. C gypsy moth projtvt. and its 
continuance was not warranted as a i)art of a program to i>rotect the barrier 
Zone. In Vermont the abandonment of camps has resulted in leaving unpro- 
fcitcd s('\(r;il .irr.is where serious infestation exists. The .same situation 
