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306 AORK'ULTrRAL APPROPRIATION BILL, 1924. 



y\v. BrR(;ESs. The })r()\vn-tail moth is a moth that came over from 

 Europe. It is ahuiKhint in Europe. 



Mr. Anderson. Where is the infestation herei' 



Mr. Btrgess. It is entirely eonfined to New Eno:hind. and at pres- 

 ent it is known only to occur in Maine. New Hampshire, and Massa- 

 i'lmsetts. Tlu'ie are no infestations known at present in Vermont, .ij 

 Connecticut. Kiiode Island, or Long Island, so we feel that progress 

 is being made witli that insect. 



Doctor Howard. Those insects are mentioned together in this 

 item rehiting to moths. We have only two more headings in the 

 back of the book. 



Mr. Anderson. You are providing here a reduction of $69,000. 

 What is the basis of tiiat reduction ( 



Doctor Howard. The fact that you gave us SI 00,000 to be made 

 available last year, and we did not use all of it. and it went in as 

 $550,000, and the Budget Bureau scaled it down. 



PREVENTION OF SPREAD OF EUROPEAN CORN BORER. 



Ml-. Anderson. We will take up now the item on pag^ 224. the 

 European corn borer. 



Doctor Howard. We ask for no increase there. The European corn 

 borer spread into Rhode Island and Maine this past year and made 

 a slight spread along the southern border of Lake Erie, but the work 

 we are carrviii}; on is the same as last year, and I do not know if vou 

 want any further word on it or not 



Mr. Anderson. I wt)uld like to know what the status is now. 



progress of work. 



Mr. Walton. This small scale map shows distribution of the corn 

 borer. The situation in the western end of this infested area is 

 much as it wjxs last year. There has been no important change. 

 There has been very little spread there [indicating on map], although 

 there has been a little spread in contiguous territory- 

 Mr. Anderson. Let us finish with that, ^^^lat are you doing to 

 confine it to this area ^ 



Mr. Walton. We are enforcing interstate and intrastate ijuar- 

 an tines. 



Mr. Anderson. How is that carried out? 



Mr. Walton. This work is carried out by the inspection of all 

 crops except corn, which is not permitted to move outside of the 

 infested area in any circumstances, except in shelled condition. 

 That (|uarantine. of course, is applicable to the entire infested area. 



Mr. A.n'der.son. Wiiat is being done in the area to destroy the 

 insect'? » 



Mr. Walton. Very little is being done. The Ohio State peot.le are 

 • arrving on a cainpaign of education to induce farmers to adopt 

 niethods which will reduce infestaticm. 'i'his is so very slight at the 

 present time that it is dlHiculi to get faruu'rs [o do work which seems 

 \o them lo he umuve.ssarN . There is a very great iliiliculty there 

 which will he hard tt» overcome. 



Doctor lIowAHi). 'I'hey d(» not ii-ali/e the danger, because there is 

 no commercial damaire. 



