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PROFESSOR CLINTON: I do not know that I made the 

 statement that gypsy moth work in Massaehausetts was not 

 effective. I said it meant a long light and a continuous fight. 

 This chestnut blight, from the re-infection, would make the fight 

 a continuous one. You could not do it up and leave it there. 

 You would have to keep at it forever, provided the material con- 

 tinued. Regarding the peach yellows law, my statement w r as 

 that they dropped that. The reason it was dropped was because 

 it made so much trouble with the farmers, by going into their 

 orchards. You would find that same difficulty with the farmers 

 in Pennsylvania that you would in Connecticut. 



DR. MERKEL, of N. Y. : Mr. Chairman: I have been on 

 my feet continuously ever since Mr. Williams spoke, and was 

 about to give it up. Some of the points I wanted to bring out 

 have already been brought out. How r ever, I want to thank Mr. 

 Williams. I want to thank the great State of Pennsylvania for 

 passing that law. Pennsj'lvania has shown all the other States 

 in the Union what it is t > pass an unselfish law. If we could 

 only have a Federal law that would be as broad as the law of 

 Pennsylvania ought to be and could easily be made, by simply in- 

 serting the words after "the chestnut tree blight,'' "and any other 

 fungous or insect pest," we would have no trouble with our fun- 

 gous or insect pests after a certain length of time. Sometime ago 

 I wrote that only when we considered a tree that is dangerously 

 infected with an insect or fungous pest as dangerous as a person 

 infected with smallpox or as a rabid dog, will we get rid in our 

 forests of insect and fungous pests. I was very glad to hear that 

 Mr. Williams and the members of the Commission have not be- 

 come discouraged by the large amount of cold water that has been 

 thrown on their plans. I am sure that the two hundred and 

 seventy-five thousand dollars that the State of Pennsylvania has 

 appropriated will never be missed, even if no beneficial results 

 are obtained; but that the everlasting shame that the State of 

 Pennsylvania would suffer if she made no attempt to save her 

 chestnut trees, should be enough not to discourage any and all 

 citizens from unselfish effort for their fellow men. 



GEORGE G. ATWOOD, of New York: Mr. Chairman: 

 There is a little desk in Albany that has been open for about a 



