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printed herewith as a part of this report, and are referred to 

 for details of the work of the past year. 



The following is the financial report of the gypsy moth com- 

 mittee of the State Board of Agriculture for 1895 : — 



Four thousand dollars of the $39,722.09 remaining unex- 

 pended on January 1 was set aside by the Legislature to be 

 used in printing a report of the history of the gypsy moth in 

 Europe and America, the methods used in destroying the 

 moth and the scientific facts ascertained. This report is now 

 in press. After deducting this $4,000, the balance, $35,722.09, 

 has been reserved for use during the time that must necessarily 

 elapse before the appropriation for 1896 can become available. 

 This course seemed to the committee to be necessary : first, 

 that the experienced and most valuable men might be furnished 

 consecutive employment, and thus be retained in the service 

 of the department ready for the work of the coming year, 

 when another appropriation should become available ; second, 

 that the work of cleaning up badly infested localities, begun 

 by cutting brush and wood in the foil and early winter, might 

 be completed by burning over the land in late winter and early 

 spring ; third, that the work of searching the remainder of the 



