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To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of 



Massachusetts. 



I have the honor to present herewith to the General Court 

 the report to the State Board of Agriculture of the committee 

 of said Board having in charge the gypsy moth work. I 

 present also the reports of the director of field work and the 

 entomologist to said committee ; the three reports together 

 constituting the report of the State Board of Agriculture on 

 the extermination of the gypsy moth. The statement of 

 receipts and expenditures and the recommendations and sug- 

 gestions contained in said report, having been adopted by 

 said Board, are presented in accordance with the provisions 

 of chapter 210, Acts of 1891, as their recommendations and 

 suggestions. 



WM. R. SESSIONS, 



Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. 

 BOSTON, Jan. 1, 1898. 



