44 
PARK AND CEMET ERY. 
The cost was as follows : 
1.000 acres in 1908 $60,000 
2,100 acres in 1909 60,000 
3.000 acres in 1910 57,000 
joining Woods: 494 acres cut, burned 
and many of them creosoted, 1,920 
acres creosoted and 2,742 acres 
sprayed, at a total cost of $35,987.20 
Creosoting 6,843.33 
Collecting egg clusters of 
gypsy moth for laboratory 31.25 
$44,682.55 
The sprayers used for this work 
were high power machines mounted 
on auto trucks. They were of an es- 
pecially powerful and efficient type 
and were manufactured by The Fitz- 
henry-Guptill Co., of Cambridge, 
Mass. This firm recently built for the 
Massachusetts State Forester a power 
truck sprayer, to lessen the cost of 
roadside work, with which it is pos- 
sible to spray both sides of the high- 
way at the same time while traveling. 
One of the serious drawbacks, here- 
tofore, with this type of spraying has 
been the time occupied in going after, 
and returning with a load of water. 
In many cases, the distance traveled 
is over five miles which would re- 
quire with a horse drawn machine 
over an hour and a half, while only 
19 minutes was occupied in making 
a round trip of 4.8 miles with this 
machine and drafting from a brook 
400 gallons of water. When the spray- 
ing season is over, by releasing four 
clamps, the spraying attachment can 
be removed and replaced by a regu- 
lar truck body, thereby converting the 
vehicle into a 3-ton auto truck. 
The prime essential in applying the 
several forms of arsenial compounds 
and fluid fungicides is an apparatus 
which will break up the fluid into a 
fine mist-like spray that will settle 
lightly upon the foliage, yet with suf- 
ficient force and quantity to t’ncr- 
thoroughly coat the leaves. 
In extensive woodland spraying, 
SPRAYING BOTH SIDES OF A WOOD- 
LAND ROAD SIMULTANEOUSLY. 
3,200 acres in 1911 54,500 
The acreage covered in 1911 was 
over three times that cared for in 1908 
and the total expenditure smaller. 
According to the report of the state 
superintendent, the cost of the work 
last year was as follows: 
In Gloucester: 100 acres cut and 
burned, 171 acres creosoted and 472 
acres sprayed, at a total cost of $6,- 
251.40. 
Tn Beverly, Manchester and the Ad 
(not including plant and some mate- 
rials). 
The expenditures last year were 
$54,580, but there are on hand tools 
and equipment which are worth nearly 
$10,000 which should be deducted 
from the first amount to show the 
actual cost of the work. 
Details of Cost of the Work. 
Spraying $21,532.50 
Tanglefooting 953.62 
Road building 432.75 
Cutting and burning 14,889.10 
POWEIR SPRAYER AT WORK ON NORTH SHORE. 
FORESTRY SPRAYING IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
