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Identifier: annualreport1906mass (find matches)
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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spreadfarther. Already a considerable wooded area lying nearHaverhill and Pleasant streets is generally infested, and acolony of importance has been located on the town farm atPark Street. The work of the local superintendent is nowunder way, and is being carried on in a satisfactory manner.A great deal of cutting and burning of worthless trees willbe necessary, together with burlapping and spraying, nextseason, in order to hold the gypsy moth in check, and manymiles of infested roadsides should have attention. The localoperations to date have been properly supported by theselectmen. NORWELL. JOHN H. SPARRBLL, Local Superintendent. 1905, amount required before reimbursement, .... $167 46 1906, amount required before reimbursement, .... 834 911905, amount expended in work against moths, estimated, . 85 001905, amount of State reimbursement, Inspector Harry B. Ramsey located the gypsy moth earlyin August at 10 different places in Norwell. A thorough o * c • o tf (D00 erf-CD P(D COOCl
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1906.) PUBLIC DOCUMENT —No. 73. 89 inspection of the residential section of the town is now com-pleted, and no additional infestations have been discovered.The local superintendent has cleared the street trees of bothspecies of moths, and has also performed the work necessaryon private estates. The infested sections will require bur-lapping and careful attention next year. The brown-tail nioth is more or less distributed over theresidential portion of the town, but so far as known it hasnot yet invaded the woodlands. NORWOOD.FRANK H. WINSLOW, Local Superintendent. 1905, amount required before reimbursement, . . . $1,025 55 1906, amount required before reimbursement, . . . 2,051 091905, amount expended in work against moths, estimated, . 15 001905, amount of State reimbursement, Four gypsy moth colonies have been found in Norwood.None of them are of large size, but in one case the infesta-tion is complicated by a number of hollow trees, whichmust be either removed or cemented. The br

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