2 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
GENERAL PURPOSES 
This is the sixth season that your committees have 
been engaged in preserving the forests on the North 
Shore, Each year the work has been more and more con- 
solidated for the purpose of preserving the woods directly 
back of the valuable Shore property, and also for the 
purpose of preserving a strip two hundred feet wide on 
the sides of our beautiful wooded drives. 
The conditions in the woods as a whole, on the 
North Shore, are much better in 1913 than they have 
been at any time in the past. 
The fact has been demonstrated beyond question 
that by thorough, systematic work, the forests can be 
preserved, and we think improved as well, Half meas- 
ures are merely a waste of money. The taking out of 
the poorer trees, and of the deadwood, will undoubtedly 
in a short time result in much better forests. 
SCOPE OF THE WoRK 
Your committees have continued their policy of co- 
operating with subscribers who are doing thorough work, 
by endeavoring to give them a protective belt back of 
their estate. 
We have now cleared up, creosoted and sprayed ‘a 
strip of two hundred feet in width on the sides of the 
wood roads—something over thirty miles—besides car- 
ing for the woods on the sides of main roads. The work 
has been done all. the way from Beverly. Hospital in 
3everly, nearly down to the line of Gloucester Harbor. 
In the interior of the woods very little, if any, 
work has been done. While in many places there are a 
large number of dead trees, they are mostly the weaker 
trees, which could not stand one stripping, but it -has 
seemed to the inspectors, and to the writer, after consid- 
erable exploring, that even in these woods the condi- 
tions are much better than they have been before. 
PARASITES 
More parasites were planted again this year, and 
the writer thinks the conditions in the back woods in- 
dicate clearly that the parasites have been increasing. 
We also put out a large number of diseased caterpillars, 
and Flacheire, or the so-called “Wilt Disease.” This 
latter was effective in many places. 
While it will be several years before the parasites, 
that attack the moth in all the stages of its growth, will 
be thoroughly developed, they will certainly render sub- 
stantial aid in the back woods. 
Experts of the United States Government report 
that several of the parasites which have been colonized 
have increased materially. The Calosoma Beetle is far 
more abundant than ever before, and is doing most ex- 
cellent work, There is also a parasite (the Anastatus 
bifasciatus) which is attacking the eggs. It is believed 
that these and several other parasites will materially in- 
crease in the future, and that they are all aiding in the 
work, 
It is almost impossible, however, to tell at this 
time what the result of the parasites will be. 
THINNING, ETC. 
One of the cheapest and most effective methods of 
preserving the woods, and reducing the cost of the work, 
is to cut out all the trees, like the white oak, etc., which 
Gypsy Moth and Road Work on the North Shore 
Report of the Summer Residents Committees for 1913 
are particularly infested by the gypsy moth, and leave 
only the more resistant trees, such as pines, hemlocks, 
‘We are doing this wherever we can and 
If one can cut all the white 
reducing infestations, 
and less expensive. 
beeches, etc. 
the results are excellent. 
oaks even, it will aid greatly in 
and make the work much easier 
FuturE Work 
The conditions in the territory in which work has 
been done during the last three years have improved 
so much that it seems wise to curtail. the work where 
the woods are not of any great public value, by perhaps 
either creosoting certain sections and spraying certain 
others, or even alternating, doing the work only every 
other year. 
The woods have been examined carefully, not only 
by the Superintendents who work under the State For- 
esters, but also by some experts in the employ of the 
United States Government, who were: detailed by Dr. © 
Howard, of the United States Agricultural Department. 
Mr. L. W. Worthley, who formerly had charge of 
the work on the North Shore, and who is now with the 
United States Government, and also Mr. A. L. Burgess, 
have been over the territory and made an encouraging 
report. They believe that we can safely cut down our 
expenses a considerable amount, and still prevent the 
woods from being destroyed. 
Work DOoNE 
The work was continued on the same lines as last 
year, and the spraying was completed in about the same 
number of days. 
There were twelve power sprayers and one motor 
truck. The truck was extremely efficient and economical 
in taking care of the woods on the road sides. : 
Thirty-six hundred and ten acres were sprayed, at 
an average cost of $5.53 an acre, It should be remem- 
bered that this cost is merely the actual cost for labor 
and material, and does not include plant and depreciation. 
_ Twenty-eight hundred and seventy-one acres were 
creosoted, at an average cost of about $1.40 an acre. 
Four hundred and seven acres were cleared and the 
brush burned, at an average cost of about $17 an acre, 
which cost is so low because work had been already done 
_in the same territory. 
MAGNOLIA 
The city of Gloucester last year and this year re- 
fused to co-operate and put in the money to help pre- 
serve the woods in that section, Consequently your 
committees felt that they must discontinue the work 
they had been doing in that section, which consisted in 
taking care of over 700 acres. 
What work was done by the Committee was, there- 
fore, confined to the road sides and certain private prop- 
erty where the owner subscribed more than the cost. 
PERSONS IN CHARGE OF THE ACTUAL WorK 
The actual work was in charge of the State For- 
ester’s Department under Mr. F. W. Rane, the State 
Forester. Mr, George A, Smith, Gypsy Moth Super- 
intendent, supervised the work and was extremely effi- 
cient and interested. The outdoor work was in charge 
of Mr, Saul Phillips, who has been in charge practically 
ever since the work was started six years ago. He had 
