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ing spraying machinery alone that I believe will be sufficient 

 importance in the future to the whole broad United States to 

 pay for the expenditure. Also, no one could estimate the value 

 to the world of the use of arsenate of lead for spraying purposes, 

 for which the gypsy moth work in Massachusetts is responsible. 



Again, another point that I wish to emphasize. We are es- 

 tablishing positions, State Foresters and other State positions 

 along different lines. I think that we want to get into the habit 

 of having a well directed forest policy, so that the current may 

 flow along well defined channels. The great trouble I think, 

 as I look upon these forest pathologists and entomologists is 

 that there are constantly new outbreaks in new places, and a 

 few good specialists on each problem are better than each state 

 working it out independently. 



I should like a system, and it seems to me that the State 

 foresters, if there is such a position in our various States, ought 

 to be closely knit together and that this work should go along 

 that channel and be well directed, not only, as I brought out, 

 for these individual things but for the problem as a whole, so that 

 in the long run we will get definite results. 



MR. STEVENS, of the Lehigh Valley Railroad: Mr. Chair- 

 man, it is now three o'clock on the last afternoon of this session. 

 I came here for two purposes : One, to get additional information 

 regarding this fungous pest, and another, to get some idea of how 

 we can best co-operate in combatting it. Now a large share of 

 this meeting has been given up to one side, the analytical side 

 of the question, and it seems to me we should give some attention 

 to the constructive side. We are agreed in some things, and one 

 is, that a better system of forestry, carried out through the East, 

 will tend to control or help control this fungous disease. I think 

 there is no dissenting voice on that at all. This has been the 

 the -history of a good many pests which we have met. I have in 

 mind particularly such a one as the orange pockweed. 



"The Devil's Paint Brush." We may not have known how to 

 eradicate it, but the introduction of that weed has brought about 

 a better rotation of the crops, which makes orange pock-weed a 

 negligible quantity. So it seems to me here, if we could appoint 

 a committee or in some way formulate a plan for a more rational 



