42 ANNUAL REP<>Ki> OF DKPAHT.M KXT OF A( IRICULTrBB, 1040 
During June approximately 1,0()0 <pi:il ifl»»<l W. P. A. workers were 
assigned to scouting. Activities during the month were limited to 
the main disease area and to the work areas in Indianapolis, Athens, 
and Cumberland. By (he end of June about 5 percent of the major 
disease area had hem covered by systematic foot or automobile-foot 
Scouting. In the remainder of the main area automobile scouting was 
performed at about 10 times the rate of systematic foot scouting- 
EXTENSIONS OF WORK ABBA 
As a result of further discoveries of elms infected with the dis- 
ease fungus in or beyond the border-zone scouting area surrounding 
the known infected area, 74 towns, township-, boroughs, cities, and 
wards were added to tlx 1 infected zone. These were as follows: In 
Connecticut, the town- of Shelton and Trumbull in Fairfield County. 
Litchfield and Woodbury in Litchfield County, and Ea>t Haven, 
Hamden. Mil ford. North Haven, Oxford, Seymour, Southbury, Wal- 
lingford, and West Haven in New Haven County; in New Jersey, the 
townships of Chesterfield and Mansfield in Burlington County and 
the township of Manalapan in Monmouth County; in Xew York, 
the towns of Colesville, Fenton, Kirkwood, Sanford. and Windsor 
in Broome County, Afton in Chenango County. Ancram and Living- 
ston in Columbia County, Amenia. Beekman, Dover. Milan. North- 
east, Red Hook, Rhinebeck. and Unionvale in Dutche>s County. 
Crawford, Montgomery, Mount Hope, and Walkill in Orange County, 
Kent in Putnam County, and Gardiner, Lloyd. Marbletown. Marl- 
borough, Xew Paltz. Plattekill. Rosendale, Shawansrunk, and the city 
of Kingston in Ulster County; in Ohio, the township of Troy, Ath- 
ens County: in Pennsylvania, the townships of Bedminster, Doyle-- 
town. Durham, East Rockhill, Haycock, Middletown, Milford, New 
Britain, Newtown, Northampton. Plumstead, Richland, Springfield, 
Warrington. Warwick, West Rockhill, and the borough of Yardley 
in Bucks County, the towns of Salisbury and Upper Saucon in 
Lehigh County, Middle Smithfield, Smithfield. and Stroud in Mon- 
roe County, Hanover, Lower Saucon. and Williams, and the borough 
of Hellertown in Northampton County, and Ward :r> in Philadelphia 
County. 
In the course of the year's scouting and elm-sanitation activities 
l.olli square miles were added to the infected zone, with a corre- 
sponding reduction of 828 square miles in the border-zone scouting 
area. The major disease area at the end of the year included 948 
square miles in Connecticut, 3,449 in Xew Jersey, 3,642 in New 
York, and 760 in Pennsylvania, a total of 8,799 square miles. The 
border-zone scouting area comprised 841 square miles in Connecticut, 
772 in New Jersey, 99r> in Xew York, and To." 1 , in Pennsylvania, 
totaling 2,81] square miles. The entire /.one of Geld operations 
totaled 11,610 square miles, an increase of only 790 square miles. 
ERADICATION AND SANITATION ACTIVITIES 
Special intention w;i< given during the winter of 40 to 
increasing the effectiveness <>f the elm-sanitation work by limiting 
tree mnovals to elms already attacked by hark hectic- and by includ- 
ing the removal «»t parts of trees that were potential breeding places 
