No. 4.] THE GYPSY MOTH. 349 



before. It is believed that the season's work under these 

 conditions will yield better results than have heretofore been 

 attained. 



Your committee has found in the results obtained during 

 the past two years an ample justification of the estimate 

 of the probable annual needs of the work as given by Pro- 

 fessor Fernald in his report to this committee, January, 

 1897. To carry out its plans for the ensuing year, the 

 committee, therefore, recommends that the sum of $200,000 

 be spent along the lines indicated. It is unnecessary at 

 this time for the committee to reafBrm its belief that the 

 entire extermination of the moth is a possibility. The re- 

 sults of the past two years' work are sufficient to dispel 

 any doubt on this point, and to make it plain to the most 

 skeptical that if sufficient funds can be provided for a few 

 years longer the accomplishment of the desired end will be 

 an assured fact. 



The well-known position which your committee has con- 

 sistently maintained during the past years has been re- 

 peatedly endorsed by the country's most prominent eco- 

 nomic entomologists. No less an authority than Dr. L. O. 

 Howard, entomologist to the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, has frequently examined the work of the com- 

 mittee's employees in the infested district, and as frequently 

 expressed confidence in the ultimate extermination of the 

 moth should sufficient funds be provided. The following 

 resolution was passed at the meeting of the Association of 

 Economic Entomologists at Columbus, O., Aug. 19, 20, 

 1899: — 



Resolved, That the Association as a body endorses and com- 

 mends the work of the gypsy moth committee of the State of 

 Massachusetts in continuing the extermination of this pest. 



The resolutions adopted at the annual Farmers' National 

 Cono-ress are o;iven below : — 



Whereas, The Farmers' National Congress is familiar with the 

 efiforts made by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to extermi- 

 nate the gypsy moth ; and 



Whereas, On former occasions it has endorsed this undertaking 

 by resohUions ; and 



