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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
FIGHTING THE GIPSY AND BROWN TAIL MOTHS 
BARREL PEMP SPRAYER FOR SMALL TREES AND SHRUBBERY. 
One man can handle pole and another the pump; throws a fine mist; sprayer 
costs 19.40. 
It is a mild assertion to make, that 
every man, woman and child in the 
eastern part of Massachusetts knows 
the life history and habits of the Gypsy 
and Brown Tail Moths. 
If left to themselves, if nothing was 
done in the line of prevention and ex- 
termination, the result would be cities 
and towns with a population exclusively 
of these pests for they would make it 
so interesting that no human being 
would care to share lots with them. 
Knowing this, there is a well organ- 
USING HAND-PUMP SPRAYING POLES 
There are three men with four-way noz- 
zles in the tree. When they are at work 
the tree is covered with a fog of insec- 
ticide. whicli settles on the leaves and 
stays till fall. 
ized movement including city authori- 
ties, private individuals, special clubs 
organized for this purpose, all working 
towards the common end, the suppres- 
sion of the moth pests. While the 
question of extermination is proble- 
matic and is being diligently fought out 
by the Gypsy Moth Commission, the 
united assistance of cities and towns 
must be kept up until the evidences of 
possible extermination are more appar- 
ent. 
To a person who has not lived in the 
districts infested who has not seen the 
ravages of these pests, who has not 
seen tens of thousands swarming over 
fences, covering the sides of houses, 
wiggling into homes through all kinds 
of places, the suffering of adults and 
children caused by the Brown Tail, the 
side walks an undulating surface of 
crawling things — as I said, those that 
have not seen these things are apt to 
smile incredulously when the terrors of 
moth invasion are mentioned. 
This is no dream, but stern, grim re- 
ality but mildly stated. 
The man who sits idly by and winks 
his eye because there is nothing of this 
kind about his “diggins,” is very apt to 
wake up some morning to find, after a^ 
heavy wind, that there has been an ar- 
rival from a distance, of white winged 
things with a little splash of tufted 
brown on their tails. He may smile on, 
but the probabilities are that during the 
next summer his face will be too swol- 
len and sore to permit any facial mus- 
cular contractions. 
The little things spoken of above 
with the splash of brown on their tails 
are the far famed Brown Tails and 
while in the moth state they are very 
apt to be carried many miles by heavy 
winds so that a place many miles away 
is not safe, simply from the fact that 
there are no pests within miles. A 
flight of this kind resembles strongly, 
the kind of a snow storm we sometimes 
have, where the flakes are as large as 
twenty-five cent pieces and which quick- 
ly obliterate anything upon which they 
fall. This is a plain statement of truth. 
A few years ago in the City of Bos- 
ton, a heavy Northerly wind brought 
us a visitation of this kind and on the 
walls of the Old Court House, about 
electric light poles, on the eaves of- 
houses they clustered so thick that it 
gave the appearance of places thickly 
encrusted with snow. 
While the Brown Tail evidences him- 
self in the sort of noisy way the Gipsy 
is more modest and he bides his time 
to get into new territory. Luckily the 
female is not able to fly. She must be 
carried from place to place and to this 
fact is due the possibility of extermin- 
ating any newly located infestation, by 
quick action. The nest of the Gypsy 
COMPRESSED AIR SPRAY PUMP FOR 
USE ON THE HOME GROUNDS' 
SHRUBBERY. 
resembles very much a rough piece of 
chamois leather of brownish tinge, and 
is found generally, on the bark of trees. 
This, however, is no safe rule to follow 
in searching for them, for they have a 
nasty habit of getting into out of the 
way places to lay their eggs. 
Underneath piazzas, through the lat- 
tice work, where it is almost a physical 
impossibility to follow them, about the 
foundations of houses on the sills, 
where they can only be located by the 
use of a mirror, on stones, in old tin 
cans, on leaves, and in fact, the female 
is not very particular where she places 
her eggs. The peculiar habit of hers 
