32 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1939 
GYPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH QUARANTINE ENFORCEMENT 
IMf.l J.ATOKY CHA1 
On ill" basis of 3 successive yean . itive scouting, it was possible 
this year to reduce further the gypsy moth regulated areas in 
Hampshire and Vermont This release of territory extend 
towns in Vermont and \ towns in New Hampshire. 1 was 
of importance to Christmas-tree opei balsam fir and spruce 
it and shipped in quantities from these towns. It also re] 
from regulation the important marble- and granite-shipping dist 
ccntcrii)-- around Rutland, Vt. Tn all, considerable a rtiJfication work 
has been eliminated by freeing this territory. 
Increased gypsy moth infestation in parts of Maine, on the other 
hand, necessitated shifting a sizable block of tov ,• State from 
atus of lightly to generally infested territ - sctions <>. 
Maine counties involved in the change. In addition, similar 
changes in status were made in several towns in three counties in V i 
mont and a few town- in a single New Hampshire county. N 
the towns newly assigned to the generally infested classification are 
important as center- km Christmas-tree cutting. 
These changes in regulated area were accomplished under a revision 
of the gypsy moth quarantine and supplementary regulations effective 
September 29, 1938. 
CERTIFICATION OF QUARANTINED PRODUCTS 
Continued heavy infestation in scattered sections of the generally 
infested gypsy moth area resulted in a further increase in the number 
of egg masses and other stages of the insect removed in the course of 
inspection of quarantined products. During the year insp 
moved 2.010 egg clusters, !"><> larvae, and 74 pupae from products in- 
spected and certified before movement to noninfested area. Typical 
removals in the course of an inspector's daily round- were 32 egg clus- 
ters, 1 larva, and l ;( .» pupae taken from a carload of Lumber loaded at 
Westcott, Maine, for shipment to Toledo, Ohio, and 75 egg eh s 
creosoted and removed from a carload of hitch □ ed as 
it was loaded at Cornish, Maine, for transportation to Philadelphia, 
Pa. A larger uumber oi - green 
than from either forest product-, stone and quarry prod 
or nursery stock inspected during the year. 
Twenty-three egg clusters were removed from 23,41 
of i.i rsery stock cert ified during the year. Nursery products : - 
as follows: 
Shrubs 
Specimen iocs 
Young trees 
Specimen evergreens 21 J 
Young 
ags, cuttings, ; 
pine trees :; "i 
Joint certificates for most of this material were issued under both 
the Japanese beet le and the gypsy mot h quarantine regulations. 
