issued as Bulletin of Immediate Information, No. 44, effective July 20, 1924: STATE OF CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION NEW HAVEN, CONN. QUARANTINE ORDER NO. 6 Concerning Gipsy Moth In order to protect uninfested parts of Connecticut from danger of infestation by the gipsy moth, under authority given in Section 2106 of the General Statutes, the following regulations are hereby established. 1. The following towns are hereby placed under quarantine because of the gipsy moth: Avon Berlin Bloomfield Bristol Burlington HARTFORD COUNTY: Canton East Granby East Hartford East Windsor Barkhamsted New Britain Newington LITCHFIELD COUNTY: Harwinton Canaan Colebrook Cornwall Goshen Chester Clinton Cromwell Durham Litchfield New Hartford Norfolk North Canaan MIDDLESEX COUNTY: East Hampton Haddam Killingworth Torrington Winchester Middletown Old Saybrook Saybrook Westbrook Wallingford Waterbury Wolcott Old Lyme Preston Salem Waterford These same towns have already been quarantined by the Federal Horticultural Board of the United States Department of Agriculture, and it shall be unlawful to remove from this quarantined area any woody nursery stock, lumber, cordwood, telegraph or telephone poles, railroad ties, or other forest plant products, unless the products shall have been inspected and certified by an authorized State or Federal inspector. 2. In view of possible future changes in the lines between the infested and non-infested areas of the State, the areas quarantined by the State shall conform to those quarantined by the United States Department of Agriculture: furthermore the regulations established by the Federal Horticultural Board of the United States Department of Agriculture for inter-state shipments, are hereby adopted for the inspection and certification of similar shipments from the quarantined area to points outside of this area within the State of Connecticut. 3. This order shall take effect from its date. Dated July 20, 1924. W. L. SLATE, Jr. Director, Connecticut Agricultural Approved: CHARLES A. Templeton, Governor. The quarantined area is shown on the accompanying map, and includes the following towns not covered in quarantine order No. 4: Cornwall and Litchfield in Litchfield County; Cheshire, Wallingford, Meriden, North Haven, Branford, North Branford, Guilford and Madison in New Haven County; Middlefield, Durham, Haddam, East Haddam, Killingworth, Clinton, Westbrook, Chester, Saybrook, Essex and Old Saybrook in Middlesex County; Lyme and Old Lyme in New London County. Figure 7. Map of Connecticut. The shaded portion represents the area quarantined on account of the gipsy moth. All woody field grown nursery stock and forest products to be shipped from the quarantined area into the free area must be inspected by a State or Federal inspector and certified. All frequent shippers should procure a Federal map showing the quarantined area, the location and address of each Federal inspector and the area covered by him. These maps may be obtained from Mr. D. M. Rogers, 408 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Mass. An arrangement has been made by which inspections can be made by both State and Federal inspectors. Applications for inspection should be made to the nearest Federal Inspector or to: D. M. Rogers, 408 Atlantic Ave., Boston, Mass., in charge of Federal inspection service; or W. E. Britton, State Entomologist, Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Conn., in charge of State inspection service. AREA WHICH MUST NOW BE COVERED IN GIPSY MOTH WORK. The greatly increased area now under State and Federal Quarantine in Connecticut because of the gipsy moth includes 118 of the 169 towns of the State, though in some of these towns, especially in New Haven and Middlesex Counties near the coast, no gipsy moth infestations have ever been found. They were included in order to be on the safe side because there was not time to scout them all and it was uncertain whether or not they were infested. Some of these towns have since been scouted by State men and not found infested. The area and position of the quarantined territory may be shown in the following table: In addition to the quarantined territory listed above, the towns of New Milford, New Haven and Hamden were found infested by Federal scouts. These towns should be added to the areas given above. Considering the large increase in territory to be covered; that there has never been a sufficiently large appropriation to cover the infested territory in one season, and that it will now be difficult to get over it all in two seasons; that it is uncertain just how much can be done by the Federal forces in Connecticut: we have asked for an appropriation of $140,000.00 for the next two years. This is an increase of $40,000.00 over the last appropriation, and seems necessary if the work is to be done properly over the larger territory. The amount requested ($140,000.00) is equivalent to $37.13 per square mile, or five and eight-tenths cents (.058) per acre of ground which must be covered. THE EUROPEAN CORN BORER IN CONNECTICUT. W. E. BRITTON AND M. P. ZAPPE. In the Report of this Station for 1923, page 277, is an account of three small infestations of the European corn borer, Pyrausta nubilalis Hubn., discovered along the Connecticut shore, and measures taken to eradicate them. During 1924, further work was done by Station men in co-operation with the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Federal scouts began early in the season and examined the entire coast region of the State from New York to Rhode Island, and extending inland for at least one mile. Then scouting was done around the principal seed corn growing districts in Milford, Orange and Wethersfield. Messrs. Zappe and Rogers of this office did supplementary scouting in Woodbridge, Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, Middletown and Salem, equivalent to 14 man days. As a result of this scouting work, seven small infestations were found by the Federal men in the following locations: one in a corn field at Hillside Home, Bridgeport, in the northeastern portion of the city; one in gardens in New Haven, near the corner of Forbes and Townsend Avenues; one in a small corn field owned by Mr. Way on the eastern side of the town of Old Lyme; one in corn in East Lyme on land of Mr. E. W. Russell; one in corn in Groton on land of Mr. Frank Burnham, about threefourths of a mile north of the town hall; and two in corn in Stonington, both in gardens near each other in the easterly portion of Mystic, one owned by Mr. Henry W. Morgan, 36 Church Street, and the other by Mr. Amos Hewitt, 26 School Street. Details will be given elsewhere under the several separate headings. After finding the infestations, the region immediately surrounding each was scouted two or three times to see if more larvae could be obtained. For a portion of the time, the wages and expenses of the Federal scouts were paid from the insect pest appropriation granted to the Station for such work. In cleaning up around the seven infestations, both State and Federal men worked together. This arrangement made it possible to have the use of one of the Federal truck sprayers, designed for burning oil. The State paid for the oil, 5,485 gallons being used. For this purpose, fuel oil was purchased at eight cents per gallon. Burning operations were started on December 1, and completed December 12, 1924. We desire here to express our appreciation and thanks to Messrs. L. H. Worthley, D. J. Caffrey, and their associates for the efficient and satisfactory co-operation and assistance which they have rendered to the State of Connecticut in this work. |