Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1917 — Brown-Tall Moth Gone. [ARTICLE]

Brown-Tall Moth Gone.

Success seems to have attended the 'efforts to exterminate the brown-tail moth, which has for years been the object of a warfare by the United States government as well as the states which have been ravaged by this pest. Lighthouses along the coast of Connecticut and Long Island have been examined, but no migrating moths have been found. Fewer moths have been found on trains coming from Infested regions during the season when the ninths are flying .. .than In any previous year. Hence this serious pest is believed not to be spreading, If indeed not actually