GIPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH INVESTIGATIONS 
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A. F. Burgess, Senior Entomologist, In Charge 
A. F. Burgess spent the week of June 20 in Washington, D. ©., conferring 
with Bureau officials, 
A. F. Burgess, S. S. ‘Crossman, H. L. Blaisdell, and C. W. Collinge wepens 
June 30 visiting the gipsy moth infestations in the territory between Brockton, 
Fall River, and New Bedford, Mass., where thousands of acres of woodland have 
been defoliated this season. On July 1 a large part of the territory east of 
Cape Cod Canal was inspected, and although there is much defoliation there it 
does not appear to be as severe as in last year. 
A. F, Burgess spent several days in Washington in the week of July 10. 
On July 12 and 13 the Secretary of Agriculture of New Jersey, W. D. Duryce,” 
and Mrs, Duryce, State Senator David H. Aguns and Mrs. Agans, and Harry B. Weiss, 
Chief of the Bureau of Statistics and Inspection, accompanied by S. 8 Crossman 
and H. L, Blaisdell, visited a considerable part of Cape Cod and the territory 
south of Taunton and Middleboro. The visitors from New Jersey were very much in- 
terested in the gipsy moth situation, and returned to New Jersey knowing by their 
own observations the havoc that the gipsy moth can produce when present in large 
numbers. 
Commissioners Edward F. Hail, of New Britain, and W. A. Kendrick, of New 
Haven, of the Connecticut State Board of Finance and Control, with Dr. W. &, 
Britton, State Entomologist, and J, 1. Ashworth, Deputy in Charge of Moth Work, 
with C. W. Collins, spent July 12 in Bristol County, Mass., viewing large areas 
which were defoliated by the gipsy moth this summer. 
At Bound Brook, W. J., on July.20, A. F. Burgess and H. L. Blaisdell had a 
conference with H. L. McIntyre, Supervisor, Forest Fest Control, Conservation De- 
partment, Albany, N. Y¥., where the gipsy moth work was discussed. Acoompanied by 
Mr. McIntyre they were then shown the State gipsy moth work on Long Island, where 
several infestations were visited. The 22d of July was spent in conference with 
Federal field men at the storehouse at Pittsfield, Mass. The following day they 
attended the summer meeting of the Massachusetts Tree Wardens and Foresters. As- 
sociation at Worcester, Mass. 
W. W. Dovener, of the Bureau, is spending a few weeks in Massachusetts 
preparing a painting to illustrate woodland defoliation caused by the feeding & 
of the gipsy moth larvae. 
C. A. Lindstrom, of the Office of Motion Pictures, Department of Agricul- 
ture, Washington, D. C., spent June 28 and July 15 at the gipsy moth office and 
laboratory in connection with a new motion picture which is being made of the 
gipsy moth and brown-tail moth work. 
