Excerpt from Report of the State Board of Agriculture: On the Work of Extermination of the Gypsy Moth; January, 1898 Brief description of the gypsy moth, Habits of the caterpillars, Food plants, Letter of transmittal, Report of the committee, Balance of appropriation on hand Jan. Prompt action of Legislature, Work in woodlands, Reduction of the force, Results of the year's work, Future work, Endorsements of the work of the committee, Report of Prof. J. B. Smith, Financial report, Report of the entomologist, Possibility of extermination, Amount necessary, Economy of extermination, Report of the field director, Winter and spring work, Destruction of eggs in walls, Burlapping, Spraying, Fall and winter work, Summary of the year's work, Details of work done, False alarms, Number of employees, Condition of infested region, Increase of the moth in woodlands, Methods of work in woodlands, Progress of extermination, Need of large appropriations, Conclusions, Appendix, Arsenate of lead as an insecticide, Arsenate of lead; its manufacture and chemical composition, Experiments with insecticides, Danger from the use of arsenate of lead, Digestion in the larvae of the gypsy moth, Notes on predaceous beetles, The species of Podisua occurring in the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.