Report on the gipsy moth work in New England . V .-???Li £. MAP SHOWING AREAS IN NEW ENGITHE GIPSY MOTH AND THE BROWN-1 GIPSY MOTH WORK IN NEW ENGLAND. 25 efficiency, the careless and negligent men being dropped from therolls. When large colonies are found crews of woodehoppers are(iinployed temporarily to cut out the worthless trees and clean up theundergrowth in order to render the area in condition for effectiveoperations. The accompanying map (PL X) shows the territory which wasknown to be infested by the gipsy moth in the fall of 1913. In organ-izing the work a large party of scouts was s
Report on the gipsy moth work in New England . V .-???Li £. MAP SHOWING AREAS IN NEW ENGITHE GIPSY MOTH AND THE BROWN-1 GIPSY MOTH WORK IN NEW ENGLAND. 25 efficiency, the careless and negligent men being dropped from therolls. When large colonies are found crews of woodehoppers are(iinployed temporarily to cut out the worthless trees and clean up theundergrowth in order to render the area in condition for effectiveoperations. The accompanying map (PL X) shows the territory which wasknown to be infested by the gipsy moth in the fall of 1913. In organ-izing the work a large party of scouts was sent to Maine for the pur-pose of determining whether the infestation had spread beyond thisline. The results of the examination show that a large number oftowns are infested outside the border previously established. Thework was continued until late in December, when it was necessary totransfer the men on account of deep snow and extremely cold weather,the temperature for a number of days being as low as 20° to 25Qbelow zero. In all, 155 towns were scout
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