The Gypsy Moth

According to latest information the ravages of the gypsy inoth, which have excited such great apprebension amongeastem agiiculturists, appear to have been greatly eheeked. Tlie moth was itotroduced iato this country by an entomologigt, v.iio permitted two or three to escape from a few specimens brought o i i í rom Germauy. In Massachnsetts il spread over twenty townships, but a Qt cojumission appoiuted for the pnrpose is said to have about limited itsfurther progress. Infested tefritory guarded by pólice, and many men and teams -were employed in spraying vdth pari, green, etc. These íi;v di as destroying shrabs, viaea and eren grasa in the field. Infeeted orchards appear burned i.s L-y lire. Ihe moths increase with tnormous rapidity, eat lor seveval weeks and Travel rapidly. From the last ref Dr. Lintner, of New York, it appeursthat be not look upon the so formidable an enemyasit u-as ;;t fii-st feared that it uiight lw.