Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-03
STATE HOUSE.
Active Crusade Against
Brown-TaiI Moth.
Commissioner Gilman Tells oil
Work in State.
Summer School for Librarians, at
State House in Augusta.

The work Of cleaning up the State
House, which is always in order after
the adjournment of the legislature. is
now in progress, and will give the en-
ployes something to do for some time
to come. The hall of representatives
and the senate chamber have been
cleaned throughout, and the carpets
carefully swept SO that the two rooms
present a very neat appearance, but
IN other parts of the building there
yet remains much to be done before
the rooms will resume their usual APP
pearance. The bureau of labor and
industrial statistics is yet located in
the basement, where it was moved at
the opening OF the session, and the
oHclals OF that department are pa
uently awaiting the time when they
VIII once more occupy their regular
quarters, on the third floor.
The reports of the continued i'm
provement of Adjutant Farnham. after
long illness at his home in Bangor.
are very gratifying to his many friends
at the Capitol. General Farnham is
well along on the road to recovery,
and it is expected that he may be able
cnt week.
The hall of representatives has been
engaged for two occasions within the
next few months. On Wednesday,
April u. the State board of pharmacy
will meet there, and on Tuesday. July
II. the July meeting of the board of
registration of medicine will be held
in, hal ha
candidates. The latter meeting is ex-
pected to be a large one.
Commissioner Gilman. of the de-
partment of agriculture, was at his
desk in the department for few
hours, Saturday, on the way to his
home. in Foxcroft, from Androscoggin
and Cumberland counties. where he
had been holding institutes during the
past week. The institutes were one
and all very successful. being largely
attended and filled with interest. Mr..
Gilman said that a gratifying fact no.
ticed during the week. was the in
terest manifest everywhere in the
crusade against the brown tail moth,
and that the people generally were
alive to the dangers of what would re-
the pest We're treated with Indifference.
In regard to the work which is being
carried on with view to the destruction
of the moths nests, he said that from 10
to i men were working in different sec
tiOns in addition to the work which was
being carried on by towns, clubs and in
dividuals. The work in York county.
which Is one of the worst infested dis
tricts in the State. the nests which have
been destroyed and paid for number
about $1,000, while nearly as many have
been DESTROYED for which settlement has
not yet been made.
Many nests have also been found in
Rockland. Camden and other coast cities.
Some sections of Cumberland county are
badly infested. and a large amount of
work is being done around Portland and
the islands of Casco bay. In the inland
cities the number of nests found is small
er. None have yet been found at Bangor,
and in Lewiston and Auburn the number
found thus far is between 300 and 400
The department is rendering all possible
assistance in the different sections of the
State, and is receiving able assistance
from the forestry commission, Prof.
Woods of the Maine agricultural expert
ment station. as well as by boards of
trade, societies and individuals.
The State library commission will meet