36 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 194 4 
setts. Caterpillars hunched in a layer G inches deep were observed in 
June at Florence, Mass. 
Owing to the lighter infestal ion during most of the year, there was 
a further reduction in the number of infestations removed from in- 
spected products. In (lie in-pert ion of 1»0.<)5G shipments. .340 e£g clus- 
ters. i>:;0 larvae, and IS pupae of the gypsy moth were removed. 
Improvisations and substitutions in the lumbering industry re- 
quired more than usual vigilance on the part of inspectors supervising 
shipments of w r ood products. Many items that under normal condi- 
tions are considered undersized or waste were utilized in the effort to 
meet the extraordinary demand for lumber and other wood products 
for war uses. In some cases lumber has been inspected on the day 
that the trees from which it was cut were felled. Some of this un- 
seasoned material is shipped <; round edge, ? ' so that inspection of each 
board is required. Many egg clusters have been discovered during in- 
spection of this green material. The last of the pond storage sites for 
1938 hurricane lumber was emptied during the year, and the logs 
were processed. White pine of small diameter and poor quality was 
also felled and shipped under inspection for use in blocking and crat- 
ing such war materials as jeeps, coastal targets, light and heavy 
trucks, guns of all sizes, and tanks. 
The use of edgings, formerly a waste product of lumber mills, as 
crating material added another item to the inspection list. Used 
railroad ties by the thousands were ripped up from abandoned rail 
lines in infested sections and shipped to distant points. Inspection 
of one lot of 2,708 ties destined to nonregulated territory resulted in 
the removal of 84 egg clusters. 
An Army officer moving from Falmouth, Mass., to Chevy Chase, Md.. 
presented a child's collapsible play pen for inspection. Fifty-six 
gypsy moth egg clusters were removed from the pen before it was 
cert ified. 
Movement of pulpwood to paper mills in northeastern New York 
was facilitated by scouting of lots from which most of the wood is cut. 
Certification is granted for all wood from uninfested lots. A limited 
permit agreement was signed by one of the largest paper mills in New 
York, under which permits are issued for the rail movement of unin- 
spected wood to that mill for immediate grinding into pulp. 
A survey of all junk yards, a total of 101, within the infested area 
was made from February to April. Gypsy moth infestation was found 
on or near the premises of 13 of these. In 4 yards egg clusters were 
found on the stored junk. Arrangements were made for the inspection 
of any of this material that was intended for shipment outside the 
infested zone. 
On two occasions inspectors were stationed on certain highways 
leading from the infested area. While heavy movements of Christmas 
trees were in progress in December, S inspectors formed a roving 
patrol on the principal exit highways. They intercepted 28 truckloads 
of uncertified Christmas trees and in most cases induced the drivers to 
return to the regulated area for disposal or inspection of their load. 
One consignment of trees was destroyed at the point of interception. 
For in days during dune one of the regular inspectors was assigned 
to road patrol work in western Vermont. Three uncertified truck- 
loads, one each of lumber, pulpwood, and granite, were intercepted] 
