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exterminative work after these pests had 
gained a firm foothold over 4,000 square 
miles of territory, Congress appropriated 
to the department a sum of money to be 
used in the efifort to prevent the spread 
of both gipsy moth and brown-tail moth. 
During the years in which this appro¬ 
priation has been made, the bureau and 
the different States acting in co-operation 
have succeeded in preventing any exten¬ 
sive spread and in making the conditions 
of the towns and villages within the in¬ 
fested territory perfectly livable, whereas 
previously both species had been enor¬ 
mously destructive and very annoying. 
During that period further extensive 
importations of the parasites and natural 
enemies of the gipsy moth have been made 
from Europe and from Japan, and of the 
brown-tail moth from different parts of 
Europe. Very many species have been 
imported in great quantities, and a num¬ 
ber of them have been established in New 
England territory. The effect of their 
work is being more strongly seen each 
year, and it is hoped that they will shortly 
become so numerous as to be important 
factors in holding the destructive insects 
in check. 
Recent discoveries have been made 
which promise, by observing certain prin¬ 
ciples in forest management, to result in 
the preservation of good stands of timber 
in the New England forests in spite of 
the continued presence of these tree pests. 
OTHER NOXIOUS INSECTS 
The introduction of the parasites and 
natural enemies of the gipsy moth and 
brown-tail moth is not the only work 
of this kind done by the bureau. An 
important enemy of the black scale of 
the orange and olive has been introduced, 
an egg parasite of the elm-leaf beetle as 
well, and at present the bureau is engaged 
in importing the European parasites of 
the alfalfa weevil. Similar shipments of 
American parasites to foreign Govern¬ 
ments have also been made, and the most 
striking success has been achieved in the 
sending of a minute parasite of the mul¬ 
berry scale from the United States to 
Italy, where it is reported to have been 
of the greatest benefit in the destruction of 
the scales, which bred so numerously in 
the mulberry plantations as to threaten the 
entire destruction of this tree upon which 
is based the great silk-growing industry 
of that country. 
A few years ago a thrips appeared upon 
pear trees and other deciduous fruit trees 
in central California, completely blasting 
the crops and spreading rapidly, threaten¬ 
ing the destruction of practically all de¬ 
ciduous fruits on the Pacific Coast. After 
two years’ investigation of the method of 
life of this pest, the bureau discovered per¬ 
fectly competent remedies, by the use of 
which orchardists are once more growing 
their normal crops. 
Three years ago a weevil destructive to 
the alfalfa was discovered in the vicinity 
of Salt Lake City. It has spread rather 
rapidly to the north and to the east, and 
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