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tus Marsh.) from diseased to healthy trees have been recorded. Also In one 
case ill*' disease has been isolated from ;i brood ga ei ■;• made i>y the native 
elm bark beetle {HyUtrgopinus ruflpe* ESichh.). 
GYPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH CONTROL 
FEDERAL AM) STATE FUNDS FOB GYPSY MOTH WORK 
At the close of the fiscal year 1934, during which the work had bee 
on under an allotment of funds from the Public Works Administration, it was 
in' essary to reduce the field force so as to keep within the funds autho 
by Congress for expenditure during the fiscal year L935. These funds amounted 
... $360,000. A small balance was available from the Public Works Admin 
tion project to (dose up the work that remained unfinished at the end of the 
fiscal year. During this period over 280,000 gypsy moth ou'_ r clusters wore 
treated In a limited solid ana In Bernardston, Greenfield, and Leyden, W 
and 812,000 feet Of Government barbed- wire fence enclosing sprayed area- 
removed and stored. 
To supplement the funds available it seemed advisable to obtain as much 
assistance of an emergency nature as was possible. Acting under the sponsor- 
ship of the Department of Agriculture of the state of Pennsylvania, the relief 
administrators of Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties set up gypsy moth proj- 
e. ts, which continued somewhat intermittently from late in the fall of 1934 
to the end of the fiscal year 193.". The Conservation Department of Massa- 
chusetts and the State forester of Connecticut also supplied details averaging 
20 men each from Civilian Conservation Corps camps located in <»r near the 
barrier zone in New England. As a result of this help, together with the 
regular funds set up by the cooperating States, the year's program of work 
was carried through, the primary objective being to reduce the heaviest and 
most threatening infestations. Scouting work for protective purposes in the 
outlying portions of the barrier zone and in Pennsylvania was attempted in 
only a limited way on account of the small number of trained scouts that 
COUld be spared, from other work. 
WORK IN AND ADJACENT TO THE BARRIER ZONE 
This work was confined almost exclusively to territory in the BOUt 
part of Berkshire County, Mass., and in the northern part of Litchfield 
County. Conn., where small infestations had been found the previous year or 
where male moths had been caught at assembling cages during the previous 
summer. During the wilder, 57 infested areas were Located and 11,556 egg 
clusters were treated. This involved scouting ^>\' 83,071 acre-: i^( woodland and 
:;7.". miles of roadway. Two hundred and two acres of woodland were t binned, 
the most favored food plants removed, and the slash burned, and 3,547 acres 
Of woodland were sprayed in dune, burlaps being applied in the Worst infested 
;i reas. 
The New York Conservation Department, principally through enrolled men 
in Civilian Conservation Corps camps, scouted portions <>( Essex, Warren. 
Dlster, and Broome Counties west of the barrier zone and selected areas in 
Columbia and Dutchess Counties within the /.one. No Infestations were found 
in the counties west of the barrier zone in New York State, but 3 small infos- 
i. 'lions totaling 11" cltl: clusters were located in the town of Austerlitz, 1 
infestation totaling 125 egg clusters in Hillsdale Town, and - J rather serious 
Infested points totaling 7,209 egg clusters in Dutchess County. These in 
tion- were treated by the force supervised by tb" state conservation depart- 
ment and the areas were sprayed in June. Work v. as also carried on by 
that department in Nassau and Suffolk counties. Long Island, and In the 
Borough of the Bronx, in New York. No Infestation was \'ouv,<\ in Suffolk 
County, but In Nassau County 24 small Infestations totaling 230 egg clusters 
located In Oyster Bay Town and is infestations totalii jg clusters 
were found in North Hempstead Town. Several square miles were found 
Infested in the Bronx and 12,000 egg clusters were round and treated. All 
of the above areas were sprayed by the New rork Conservation Department 
bob. re the end of 1 he fiscal S o:ir. 
\ Federal agent stationed at Roslyn, Long island, certified 1 791 shipments 
of DUrsen Stock and other material in. • -led area 00 LODg 
