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Manchester Gets No Credit for Moth 
Work, Though It Spent $11,842.57. 
We note by the Gloucester Times 
that ‘‘More-_than $110,000 was. ex- 
pended by the cities and towns of 
Essex. county last year fighting the 
gypsy moths, aecording to the report 
of the State Forester Rane, sent to 
the legislature, Tuesday. This enor- 
mous total was reached in spite of 
the’ fact that the cities of Lawrence 
and Néwburyport and the towns of 
Manchester and Nahant spent noth- 
ing.’ 
And in the Bev erly Times we see 
that “State Forester Frank W. Rane, 
who: as “also superintendent of the 
work of suppressing the gypsy moth, 
has< “sent. ‘to the ‘legislature the 
amounts spent by the diiferent cit- 
ids’ and’ towns in. the state, and the 
ayiiounts for which: those towns have 
béén'reinibursed. By this statement 
it: vappears: that. $110, 171.89 has been 
spent AD: “Essex county, although 
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beaes, Ae E. WILLMONTON ... 
“Attorney and: Counse!lor-at- Law 
OIE 18h 
MILLION PARASITES LIBERATED. 
Japanese Schedius Begins Its Career as a Foe of the Gypsy Moth. One 
Hundred Colonies Planted. 
What is looked upon as the most 
hopeful step yet taken in the sup- 
pression of the gypsy moth pest was 
the ‘‘planting’’ of some 100 colonies 
of the little Japanese parasite known 
as.the Schedius have just been plant- 
ed from the imsectory by W. F. 
Fiske. In each colony there are 
about 10,000 parasites, making a 
total for the first spring planting 
of one million. These colonies have 
been liberated in different parts of 
the infested area. In the course of 
three months about one million more 
will be liberated. They attack the 
gypsy moth eggs, showing a mark- 
ed preference for the eggs in which 
the embryonic caterpillars have de- 
veloped, so that in reality it is a par- 
asite on the unhatched caterpillars. 
With one of these in its way the hit- 
tle gypsy moth caterpillar will have 
slight chances of ever reaching the 
foliage on the trees. 
The Schedius is a prolific parasite. 
Last spring there were only 19 in the 
eovernment’s insectory. As soon as 
they began to thrive they completed 
a generation in three or four weeks, 
and had inereased to about two mil- 
hon when Mr. Fiske took out half 
the flock and let them loose among 
the trees. The other half is resery- 
ed for the season when the gypsies 
begin to lay eggs again. It was dif- 
fieult to establish the Schedius in 
Lawrence, Manchester Nahant and 
Newburyport are credited with hav- 
ing made no returns on expenditures. 
Beverly spent the third largest 
amount in the county, Gloucester 
and Saugus going ahead of this 
city.”’ 
The Manchester Town Report 
shows that $4342.57 was spent by the 
town last year in fighting the moths, 
and in addition to this sum spent,- 
under the direction of the local su- 
perintendent, $7500 was appropriat- 
ed for the special work carried on 
by the state. 
Whose fault is it that Manchester 
is listed among the towns spending 
nothing for moth work? 
We note that Manchester is re- 
quired to spend $5001.54 this year. 
ml Willmonton’s Ag Agency ** 
SCHOOL AND UNION STS,, MANCHESTER 
OLD SOUTHBLDG., BOSTON 
Massachusetts. The first. shipments 
from Japan died on the way. 
There are supposed to be many 
other imported parasites in the field, 
some for the eggs and some for the 
caterpillars. How well they winter- 
ed is not known yet, as they stay in 
seclusion until their hosts, the moths, 
appear. 
One of the men employed by the 
state to cut down browntail nests 
reports that the browntail moths 
have begun to emerge already. 
These moths hatch in the fall and 
crawl into their nests while very 
small. Now they are beginning to 
crawl out of the nests and will be 
ready to eat as soon as any buds 
appear. 
In his anual report this week 
State Forester Rane recommended 
that the gypsy and browntail moth 
law be so amended that the state 
forester may take supervision in cit- 
ies and towns so desiring it. 
He also recommended that the us- 
ual additional appropriation for 
gypsy and browntail moth suppres- 
sion, which has been $165,000, be 
again made this year; and that an 
appropriation of $100,000 be made 
for handling the elm-beetle, and that 
an additional appropriation of $15,- 
000 be made for carrying on the for- 
estry department work as outlined ; 
total, $280,000. 
An appropriation of $4495.75 was 
made at the March meeting. 
That there is a grand opportunity 
for a first-class winter hotel at Man- 
chester, as the center of the North. 
Shore, is borne out by the success of 
the venture this last winter by the 
Essex County club, which has been 
kept open for winter parties. There 
has been hardly a week that several 
parties have not availed themselves 
of the opportunity of making the 
club their headquarters on a visit to 
the shore. There have been several 
families there the last week. Last 
Sunday as many as 40 people were 
at the club. So much of a success 
has this proven that next winter it 
is expected the idea will be carried 
out more extensively, ~ ; 
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