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Summer Residents’ Committee Report on Moth | Suppre 
The summer resident committees in 
Beverly and Manchester, which have 
had charge of the work in suppression 
of the gypsy moths for the last several 
years, have recently issued their annual 
report on the work accomplished. It fills 
a neat pamphlet of 12 pages, which, after 
reviewing the work accomplished in 1907 
and 1908, explains what has been done 
in the last year and what it is proposed 
and hoped to do in the next. 
THE Breeze reproduces a map which 
the commitees have prepared, showing 
the woodland on the North Shore which 
has been infested with gypsy moths and 
the sections in which the trees have been 
cleared, the ground burned and the nests 
creosoted. Roughly speaking, over 2000 
acres have been cleared in 1908 and 
1909, and, during the last year alone, 
over 2100 acres have been sprayed. In 
1908, with four power spraying machines, 
over 1000 acres were sprayed. On the 
land cleared the poorer trees were cut 
out, the brush was cut down and burned 
and, where possible, the ground and 
stone walls were burned over The 
work during the year has demonstrated 
that large tracts of woodland which were 
quite badly stripped last year were very 
little defoliated this year, although but 
one-half as much money was spent on 
them. In many cases nothing was done 
except to spray the territory which had 
been cleared the year before. This latter 
was particularly true of the territory 
around Brimbal avenue, Montserrat; on 
Common Lane, between Montserrat 
and Pride’s Crossing; in some of the 
woods back of Beverly Farms and in the 
woods directly back of Manchester Vil- 
lage. Here there was much less defolia- 
tion this year than last, although there 
were twice as many acres to spray and it 
was manifestly impossible to spray them 
all in time to prevent all defoliation. 
With the eight power spraying ma- 
chines working every week-day and 
Sunday, over 100 acres were sprayed 
each day. The work has been done 
under the direction of the State Forestry 
Department. The large amount of ter- 
ritory covered, and the efficient manner 
in which it was done is largely due to 
the executive work of the State Superin- 
tendents. The extent and efficiency of 
the work was also made possible because 
the cost was cheapened and each machine 
enabled to spray more tank loads each 
day by securing water with long lines of 
hose and with watering carts which acted 
as tenders and by the use of a gasoline 
pump which could supply water from a 
brook or well 1000 feet away. Each 
spraying machine is operated at a cost of 
about $90 a day. The report says that 
the woodland which has been treated is 
all in much better condition now than 
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when the work was started and that there 
has been no serious stripping in the ter- 
ritory cared for. 
Speaking of the territory in which seri- 
ous stripping by the moths has taken 
place, the report says that, in some in- 
stances, it has been impossible to secure 
the consent of the owners of the property 
to carry out the work and, in other cases, 
sufficient money could not be secured to 
do the work thoroughly. Half measures 
are of no value. ‘The report says that 
there is, at present, an extremely danger- 
ous colony back of West Manchester and 
West Beach Hill. To this colony the 
committee has several times called atten- 
tion and, even last year, $15,000 would 
have been necessary properly to do the 
work in that section. 
Through the woods back of this terri- 
tory, an extended protective belt has 
been placed in an attempt to prevent 
some of the caterpillars from migrating 
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across fromthe large colonies back of 
Brookwood Road, but the woods at that 
point on the shore are in danger of being 
entirely destroyed. The same is true 
beyond Philip Dexter’s land in Magnolia 
and still more true in the district back of 
Magnolia Point and down toward West 
Gloucester. The trecs there were 
thoroughly defoliated this year. 
Speaking of the methods used to re- 
strain the ravages of the moths, the re- 
port says: ‘“Your committee did the best 
it could to prevent these colonies (those 
just mentioned above) from spreading, 
and attempted to starve them out as much 
as possible by spraying the roadsides 100 
feet back. Myriads of caterpillars were 
thus starved and killed by the wilt disease 
(so-called cholera) inside these territo- 
ries. It is perfectly evident that, had it 
not been for the work done last year and 
this year, conditions on the North Shore 
from Beverly all the way down through 
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ORTH SHORE GYPSY MOTH GOLONIES 
AS FOUND BY STATE SUPERINTENDENT. 
A.UGUST- 12909 
MANCHESTER COMMITTEE 
MAJ HENRY |. HIGGINSON. 
GARDINER M- LANE 
GEORGE WIGGLESWORTH 
Manchester would have been unbearable. 
All the trees would have been stripped, 
excepton a few private estates, and all 
the pines and hemlocks would have been 
killed. : 
“‘The committee hopes that all the 
summer residents, and particularly the 
subscribers, will walk through the woods 
and see what work has been done and 
what results have been accomplished and 
then take occasion to go through the 
Magnolia woods where no work has been 
done and see what devastation has re- 
sulted from lack of work. 
“If the forests are to be preserved and 
the beautiful wooded drives are not to be 
destroyed, the work must be continued 
until the parasites, thousands of which 
have been planted, secure the balance of 
the power.’’ 
Many varieties of parasite have been 
cultivated in this country and, so far, 
have survived our winters. Several of 
BEVERLY COMMITTEE 
OLIVER AMES 
CHARLES H TYLER 
WM. D.SOHIER 
them promise very satisfactory results. 
Large quantities of the most promising 
kinds have been imported from Japan 
and Europe and been liberated at differ- 
ent points along the North Shore. The 
work has been in charge of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture of the United States 
and under the personal direction of its 
expert, Dr. L. O. Howard. Plantings 
have been made, not only of the Calo- 
soma Beetle, a small green bug, but also - 
of several varieties of flies and smaller 
insects which attack the gypsy moth in 
the various stages of its development. 
Naturally it will be several years before 
these parasites can develop and repro- 
duce sufficiently to gain the balance of 
power asthe gypsy moths are already 
present in such large numbers. Many 
of the best experts are agreed, however, 
that the parasite will develop and secure 
supremacy over the moths in a few years, 
just as it has done in other countries 
where the gypsy moth was prevalent. 
In securing funds to carry on the 
work, the Summer Resident committees 
worked on the following plan: They 
agreed with the Governor that the State 
would provide, in the first ‘instance, 
one-third of the money needed on con- 
dition that the city of Beverly and the 
town of Manchester would supply anoth- 
er third and the Summer Resident Com- 
mittees the balance. When all — sub- 
scriptions had been paid in, there was a 
erand total of $37,500. The additional 
money needed after this amount was ex- 
pended was raised by the summer resi- 
dent committees. Since August, 1908, 
when the spraying work ended, $60,000 
has been expended in the work, $7,000 
of which was spent for spraying- 
machines, hose, tools and other appara- 
tus which can be used for several years. 
The committees have also had consid- 
erable to do with the woodland roads 
which have proved one of the most beau- 
tiful attractions on the North Shore. 
The roads are built and maintatned by 
subscriptions made annually by summer 
residents. Over 28 miles ofthese roads 
have been built and are now maintained 
on that basis. “To maintain the -roads 
costs between $50 and $75 a. mile. 
During the last two years, a beautiful 
new woodland road called Forrest Lane, 
has been built from Forrest street,-Man- 
chester, at the east end of the Essex 
County Club grounds, three-and-a-half 
miles through the woods and along the 
shore of Haskell’s Pond to West Glou- 
cester. [his year a connecting road 
called Laurel Lane has been grubbed out 
for about a9 mile and a ‘quarter joining 
Forrest Lane and Haskell’s. Pond swith 
the Manchester-Essex road near. Four 
Corners in Essex. 
Dust-laying on the principal highways 
has also had the attention of the com- 
mittees. Under the direction of Mr. 
Dexter, formerly, and Mr. Boardman, 
this year, over ten miles of road along 
the shore have been-kept in excellent 
condition. Besides these ten.miles of 
road, the Mlyopia Club and afew of the 
summer residents, notably Judge William 
H. Moore and .Henry C. Frick have 
also subscribed suthefent funds for oiling 
the roads in Wenham and Hamilton, 
leading from Beverly Farms to’ Myopia. 
Concerning the future the report says: 
““Your committee sincerely. hopes that 
the work that has been so well be- 
gun will be continued next year along the 
same lines. {dn no other way can resutls 
be secured and the woods preserved. 
The committe expects, if the work con- 
tinues, to secure some help along the 
roadsides from the United S:ates authori- 
ties, who have tentatively agreed:to cir: 
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