Excerpt from Report of the Entomological Department of the New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station, New Brunswick, N. J: For the Year 1905 As to the gypsy moth, its natural spread is slow, and a quarter of a century might elapse before it reached our State did it depend only on these natural powers. Unfortunately, communication by way of railroad, trolley and automobile is now so widespread that at almost any time a colony Of the insects may appear at some point far removed from the present infestation. That this is not a fanciful danger is shown by the fact that egg masses have been found on freight cars and moths on passenger trains. 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.