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Amount brought forioanl, $169,327 8S 



Expended in 1893 by the State Board of Agriculture. 



Expenses of committee in charge of the work, . f 110 28 



Director's salary, 2,400 00 



Advising entomologist's salary and expenses, . 730 16 



Wages of employees, 59,039 65 



Other expenses, including travelling exj^enses, 



teaming, rent, sujiplies and tools, . . . 13,647 39 



75,927 48 



Total expended to Jan. 1, 1894, $245,255 31 



The estimates called for must, from the nature of the 

 attending circumstances, be only opinions. The plans for 

 the work of 1893, for which an appropriation of $165,000 

 was asked, contemplated a careful tree-to-tree search of all 

 the forest land within the infested territory. This search 

 would have cost a very large sum ; l)ut as only sixty per 

 cent of the sum asked was appropriated, this, with much 

 other work planned for the central district, was necessarily 

 postponed. It was decided that the work of extermination 

 in the outer infested towns and the inspection of the terri- 

 tory surrounding them still further out was most necessary 

 and would contribute most toward extermination. Were 

 the uncertainties that confront us in the condition of these 

 forest lands eliminated, our opinions would more nearly 

 approximate to the character of estimates made by experts 

 when all the conditions of a problem are known. 



In 1893 considerable progress toward extermination wa& 

 made. Ten towns were apparently cleared, comprising 

 more than one-third of the territory originally infested. 

 In 1894, with the appropriation asked for ($165,000), the 

 committee ought to be able to bring into the same category 

 Swampscott, Salem, Peabody, Wakefield, Woburn, Lex- 

 ington, Winthrop and Franklin Park. This would leave 

 Belmont, Arlington, Cambridge, Chelsea, East Boston, 

 Everett, Lynn, Maiden, Medford, Melrose, Revere, Sau- 

 gus, Somerville, Stoneham and Winchester still infested. 

 Several of these towns should be very nearly or quite cleared 

 in 1894. But we have, in our estimates, left them with the 

 list of probably uncleared. If, in 1895, $150,000 is appro- 

 priated, the work of that year should clear all towns but 



