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Title: Annual report
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Massachusetts. Superintendent for supressing the gypsy and brown-tail moths
Subjects: Gypsy moth Browntail moth
Publisher: Boston
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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91 The total amount spent in the 22 cities and towns receiv-ing reimbursement to the amount of $40,250.08 may bedistributed as follows : — Total amount spent, $76,811 76 Pay-rolls, $65,944 08 Travelling expenses, 490 55 Supplies, 8,655 87 Sundries, 1,020 42 Stationery and postage, .... 483 37 Printing, 185 47 Rent, 32 00 $76,811 76 As in the case of the central office, many expenses havebeen incurred this year by cities and towns which will notbe duplicated in succeeding years. The items of sup-plies and sundries represent chiefly the investment inthe necessary apparatus for conducting the work. Ladders,pruners, axes, spraying outfits, etc., have been required, andthese supplies, even after a proper allowance for deprecia-tion, will be available for use for several years to come. CONDITION OF THE INFESTED DISTRICT.In describing the infested district, a natural division in-cludes the central and the outer towns and cities. By the central towns are meant those comprising the centre of
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1906.) PUBLIC DOCUMENT —No. 73. 33 infestation, and naturally the ones most thoroughly infestedby the gypsy and brown-tail moths. The term outertowns includes those lying outside of this central badlyinfested district. The degree of infestation varies in these latter towns fromthose which are generally infested lying on the border of thecentral district to the outer towns, such as Carlisle, South-borough, Hopkinton, Stoughton, etc., where only a fewgypsy moth nests have been found. In each case the reportis based upon an examination by an inspector from this office,supplemented by data furnished by the local superintendent. The annual initial expenditure required to insure reim-bursement by the State, both in 1905 and 1906, is given inthe case of each municipality. Central Towns. ARLINGTON.WALTER R. CASWBLL, Local Superintendent. 1905, amount required before reimbursement, . . . f 1,978 25 1906, amount required before reimbursement, . . . 3,956 491905, amount expended in work agains

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