34 A NNT A L REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OK A(.HI( ri/I L RK, I'M" 
Luzerne County. This quarantine revision and the extermination 
of :'»() infestation- in tin* lightly infe>ted territory were the out- 
standing accomplishments of the year in the Pennsylvania area, and 
these, together with a progressive reduction in the severity of infesta- 
tion throughout the territory covered by this project, very definitely 
indicate that pro<rres> is being made in eradicating the gypsy moth 
from that State. 
GYPSY MOTH WORK Bit CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS 
The Bureau has continued to cooperate with the United State- 
Forest Service and State C. C. C. officials in supervising C. C, C. 
gypsy moth work in towns just east of the barrier zone in Vermont, 
Massachusetts, and Connecticut. This lias been done as in the past 
to discover and treat, insofar a^ this is possible with available crews, 
gypsy moth infestations that were the most threatening to the barrier 
zone. This ha.s been helpful to the zone and to the towns where it 
was done, but there are strategic places just east of the zone where 
work is needed but no enrollees are available. 
The quota of C. C. C. enrollees available for this work previous 
to the hurricane of 1938 has never been returned to this project. 
During the year 70.630 6-hour C. C. C. man -days were furnished 
for the work but. based on the allotment available at the time of the 
hurricane, 51,817 additional 6-hour man-days that were taken from 
it and used on fire-hazard-reduction work should have been available. 
At the beginning of the year aproximately 167 enrollees were avail- 
able from 5 camps in Massachusetts and Connecticut, but none from 
camps in Vermont. During the year there were some changes in 
camp locations and personnel, and men became available at 2 camps 
in Vermont, 4 in Massachusetts, and 4 in Connecticut. In the spring 
the gypsy moth camp at Greenfield was discontinued and the camp 
previously removed from Westfield for work necessitated by the 
hurricane was returned to that location. Tn Connecticut a crew 
at 1 camp has never been returned to the work and at another camp 
a crew which was available for part of the year was removed to do 
gypsy moth thinning 1 work under the direction of the Slate forester. 
As a result of this work slightly over 129.000 acres were examined, 
approximately 23.000 of which were given open-country scouting 
and 1,700 were thinned. Egg clusters to the number of 1,496,305 
were destro} T ed by creosoting and burning. Tn addition. 266,458 
trees were burlapped. and men patrolling the burlap bands destroyed 
311,454 gypsy moth caterpillars and pupae. Work was done in 11 
towns it) Vermont. Massachusetts, and Connecticut. 
The Bureau loaned seven spraying machines for C. C. C. use east 
of the barrier zone in Massachusetts and Connecticut. The State ento- 
mologist of Connecticut furnished two machines for this work. 
The C. C. C. purchased lead arsenate and fish oil for use in Massa- 
chusetts and Connecticut. a> well as the labor for this work'. All 
the machines excepting one in Massachusetts were used OH a double 
shift 1 sis. A total of 2,816 acres of woodland were -prayed. 
The work hafi resulted in a great decrease in gypsy moth Infes 
tation in the area between the Connecticut River and the barrier 
zone in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Those areas which were 
