No. 4.] GYPSY MOTH IN THE LEGISLATURE. 39 



was that the trees on which moths were found were marked, 

 and he also had a map of the whole orchard, showing these 

 markings, and by looking on this map he could point to 

 every tree on which a moth had ever been found. Another 

 said a gang of men working near his house had a picnic. 

 He admitted he did not see them, but heard them talking 

 loud, therefore he thought they must be having a picnic. 

 The men were moving brush, and it was shown to the com- 

 mittee that they had anything but a picnic on that day. I 

 mention these two cases, which are very mild ones, to show 

 the kind of opposition the committee of the Board of Agri- 

 culture has to meet. 



The second class of persons that came before us to oppose 

 an appropriation were the discharged employees, and they 

 were discharged for cause. From the very nature of the case 

 very little need be said about their testimony, for I think it 

 had very little weight with either the agricultural committee 

 or the ways and means committee. Their effective work was 

 done in the halls, where any kind of a story could be put in 

 circulation ; and to the writer's knowledge such stories were 

 used very wisely by the opposition to poison the minds of 

 those who had not made an investigation of the work of the 

 gypsy moth committee. 



The third class that came before us to oppose the ap- 

 propriation was the Boston Market Gardeners' Association. 

 These men seemed to look at this question from no broader 

 stand-point than their own garden. They seemed to think 

 that because they, with several hired men and a few acres 

 of land that were under cultivation all the time, could 

 keep the gypsy moth fairly well suppressed, the farmer, 

 with one hired man and a hundred acres of land, could do 

 the same. These men also thought each individual should 

 look after his own premises. This is the German plan, and 

 if a farmer fails to comply with the law, the government 

 does the work and adds the cost to his taxes. While one 

 of these gardeners was telling how easy it was to spray his 

 trees (and, by the way, he had only a few), he was asked 

 how he would spray woodland, where it was impossible to 

 carry the spraying apparatus by team. His reply was, 

 ♦' Two men can carry a barrel of water through such places." 



