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one woodland, and as near as we can judge there are two hun- 

 dred acres out of three hundred acres infested. We have had 

 nine men at work there one week. In one day they secured 865 

 egg clusters, and from one tree 251 egg clusters were taken. 



Is that important or not? ■ As a matter of insurance protec- 

 tion to our State we must stop this gypsy. There is no other 

 way that we can do. We must do it. And we will do it if we 

 can get the money and the men to do with. I have got to get 

 some men and send them right to Massachusetts — have several 

 in mind now — but we don't want any man in the work who is 

 looking for the dollars and cents — not a m'an. We have had 

 so many applications at the office from men who are no more 

 competent to do this work than little children, and men that you 

 could not depend upon, and yet we have had petition after peti- 

 tion come in, even one person going before the Governor and 

 Council as a last resort, to get onto this work. I wouldn't have 

 the man if the President of the United States should insist on 

 it, if I could have anything to say about it. The first rule on 

 my field note book says "No man addicted to intoxicating liquors 

 shall be employed on the force." That is enough to rule out lots 

 of the applicants. We don't intend to have a man, as I said, 

 who is looking for the dollars and cents. We are all looking 

 after them in one way, and it is right we should. But what I 

 mean we don't want — there is a new word come in that is just 

 being used and coming to the front a great deal — we hear it in 

 connection with our pomological meetings — every man that has 

 got an orchard uses that word sometimes, especially in the spring 

 when he starts out with some scions in his hands. What does 

 he do to his tree ? Well, now, we don't want that word used in 

 any connection with the gypsy or brown-tail work, and we don't 

 intend it shall get there if we can help it. We have got to have 

 honest work. We can't have a man on the force who will slyly 

 put an egg cluster in his pocket and on his way home or some- 

 where else drop it. A man ought to be hung that will do it. 

 And yet they do it and have done it. If you ever see a man on 

 this force doing anything of that kind, please report. I will pay 

 a bounty. 



I will tell you our method; perhaps if I leave you just here 

 you may think that we are up against an impossibility. Now I 



