. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. '230 THE GIPSY MOTH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. Cost of Spraying average orchard trees, from 20 to 25 cents per tree. Cost of spraying average street trees, from 40 to 50 cents per tree. Cost of bnrlapping and attending, about 20 to 25 cents per tree for the season of from six to eight weeks. Cost of banding the trees with Tanglefoot or similar substance, 5 to 10 cents per tree; and an additional cost for patrolling to kill the caterpillars. Cutting the brush and poor trees, pruning and treating egg-clusters varies in cost very widely according to the growth, an
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. '230 THE GIPSY MOTH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. Cost of Spraying average orchard trees, from 20 to 25 cents per tree. Cost of spraying average street trees, from 40 to 50 cents per tree. Cost of bnrlapping and attending, about 20 to 25 cents per tree for the season of from six to eight weeks. Cost of banding the trees with Tanglefoot or similar substance, 5 to 10 cents per tree; and an additional cost for patrolling to kill the caterpillars. Cutting the brush and poor trees, pruning and treating egg-clusters varies in cost very widely according to the growth, and amounts all the way from $10 to $100 per acre. An average native growth of from twenty-five to thirty years around Boston can be cut and put into cordwood for about $40 per acre, and the ground may be burned over with the brush after the wood has been removed for from $2 to $5 per acre. L. 0. Fig. 8.—Killing the eggs of the Gipsy Moth in woodland, showing the large amount of labor and expense involved in combating the pest in badlj' infected districts. (After Forbush and Fernald.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. [Hanover, N. H. ] : New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
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