Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1920 — MAKE WAR ON TREE PESTS [ARTICLE]

MAKE WAR ON TREE PESTS

Method by Which School Children May Be of Great\Bervice to tire Community. Public school- children of Trenton, N. J., are setting a good example to the country in their war on the tussock moth. The Ajtnerican Forestry association at Washington wants to receive reports on what other cities are doing in this regard and would like to find the city with- the best record in collections. In the Trenton Times this account is found. “Boys and girls of the public schools of the city are. still continuing their activities in the tussock moth campaign, and their last report", shows that during the month the boys and girls have collected 1.284,809 cocoons. Last year the pupils collected 2,000,000 during the entire campaign, and jhelr total this year will far exceed that. —“A splendid record has been made by the McClellan school pupils, who head the list with 1.186,795 cocoons. The other schools reported as follows: Centennial, 2,237; Cook, 15,049; Hamilton, 13,050; Hewitt, 46,000; Jefferson, 2,867; McClellan, 1,186,795; McKinley, 5,093; Parker, 953; Washington. 2.610; Columbus, 11,152; 'total, 1,285,809.”