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new, it has been recommended before. Although we 

 thought we had discovered something, we find it has 

 been recommended before, and has been in use more or less 

 for over fifty years in other parts of the country. 



Question. Do I understand you that all the caterpillars 

 in the tree will go down and hide under this band that you 

 put about the trunk ? 



Mr. FoRBUSH. ^¥e cannot state that definitely. We 

 have in some cases taken all the caterpillars from the tree 

 by putting on this band and searching it ; 1)ut, if there are 

 hiding places left up the tree which you have not taken care 

 of, they may stay up in the tree and not come down, but 

 generally some time in their lives they will come down. If 

 they do not come down before, they Avill come down to 

 pupate, and pupate under this band. 



Question. How often should it be examined? 



Mr. FoRBUSH. It should be examined every day. We 

 have not done it, because we have not had men enough to 

 do it ; })ut it should be done. 



Secretary Sessions. To how many trees have you 

 ap})lied it? 



Mr. FoRBUSH. I cannot give it exactly, because we have 

 not figured up, a hundred thousand a})proximately, or more. 



The Chairman, If no other gentleman has anything to 

 say upon this subject, we will pass to the next sul)ject, the 

 "Work of the Board of Agriculture," which will l>e pre- 

 sented by AViLLiAM R. Sessions, Secretary of the Board 

 of Agriculture. 



Secretary Sessions. I want to say, before I begin to read 

 what I have written, that personally I am very much obliged 

 to the people of Spencer and the surrounding towns. We 

 have had a very successful meeting, one of the most pleasing 

 to those Avho have had the work of arranging for it ; and I 

 think I may say for the Board of Agriculture that we shall 

 go away Avith very appreciative feelings towards the town 

 of Spencer and its people. For myself, I thank you heartily. 

 In reference to the subject which has just l)een presented, if 

 there should be questions you wish to ask Mr. Forbush or 

 myself, after I get through, we shall be ha})py to explain the 

 pictures and tell where they were taken, and other facts 

 about them. 



