Annual report . d above as cleared and sprayedlast year will suffer greatly, as well as the residential section inthe district; and it is hoped that hearty co-operation can beobtained through the same channels as last year. We submitbelow a financial statement: - SPECIAL NORTH SHORE 19O8. April 3. To Wm. D. Sohier, agent, . $2,000 007. To city of Beverly, . . 5,000 00 10. To A. H. Kirkland, superintend-ent, 10,000 00 15. To Wm. D. Sohier, agent, . 3,000 00 25. To Wm. D. Sohier, agent, . 5,000 00 26. To town of Manchester, . 2,000 00May 19. To town of Manchester, . 3,000 00June 3. To W
Annual report . d above as cleared and sprayedlast year will suffer greatly, as well as the residential section inthe district; and it is hoped that hearty co-operation can beobtained through the same channels as last year. We submitbelow a financial statement: - SPECIAL NORTH SHORE 19O8. April 3. To Wm. D. Sohier, agent, . $2,000 007. To city of Beverly, . . 5,000 00 10. To A. H. Kirkland, superintend-ent, 10,000 00 15. To Wm. D. Sohier, agent, . 3,000 00 25. To Wm. D. Sohier, agent, . 5,000 00 26. To town of Manchester, . 2,000 00May 19. To town of Manchester, . 3,000 00June 3. To Wm. D. Sohier, agent, . 5,000 0011. To A. H. Kirkland, superintend-ent, 5,000 00 26. To Wm. D. Sohier, agent, . 2,000 00July 7. To Wm. D. Sohier, agent, . 3,000 009. To A. H. Kirkland, superintend-ent, 5,000 00 $50,000 00 Cr. By expenditures: - Wages of employees, $38,393 60 Travelling expenses, . ... 250 38 Rent, 60 00 Supplies, 10,900 88 Sundries, 324 90 49,929 76 Balance Nov. 30, 1908, $70 24. 1909.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT--No. 73. 49 THE GYPSY MOTH v. WHITE PINE. In the last report of this department (page 163) this subjectwas discussed in a conservative manner, and details were givenof a certain number of experiments with young gypsy mothcaterpillars on white pine foliage, tending to show that inthe early stages of their existence these insects could not liveon white pine alone. Because of the importance of this dis-covery, if true, Mr. Kirkland preferred to take conservativeground, and await the results of the larger series of experi-ments in 1908. Fortunately for the thorough testing of thematter, there was found in the fall of 1907, at Arlington,Mass., on the property of Mr. F. A. Pierce, an area of 10 acresof white pine free from deciduous growth which was generallyinfested by the gypsy moth, some of the trees bearing hundredsof egg clusters. In co-operation with Mr. D. M. Rogers, FieldAgent of the United States Department of Agriculture, thesetrees were banded early in the
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