222 BOARD OF AGKICULTUKE. [Pub. Doc. 



EEPORT OF COMMITTEE ON GYPSY MOTH, INSECTS 



AND BIRDS. 



[Read and adopted at the Public Winter Meeting, Dec. 5, 1905.] 



To the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. 



In making its report, your committee on gypsy moth, 

 insects and birds would call attention to its recommendations 

 of a year ago, and to their practical acceptance by the Legis- 

 lature of 1905. At that time we recommended that the 

 work be placed in the haiids of a paid commission, with a 

 large appropriation, to be extended over a number of years 

 with a maximum and minimum amount to be expended in 

 any one year, and the work to be carried on against the 

 insect at all seasons and in all forms. 



The last General Court enacted a bill for the api)ointment 

 of a State superintendent of the gypsy and brown-tail moth 

 work, at a salary to be fixed by the Governor and Council, 

 with an a})})ropriation of $300,000 up to and including 

 May 1, 1907. Of this amount $75,000 could be expended 

 during the present year, $150,000 and any unexpended 

 balance of the previous year during 190G, and $75,000 and 

 any unexpended balance of the previous years during 1907, 

 up to and including May 1 . The act also i)rovides for the 

 co-operation of nmnici[)alities in the work against these 

 insects, and fixes the amounts which they are recjuired to 

 spend and the reimbursement which they shall receive from 

 the treasury of the Connnonwealth. 



The only direct reconnnendation of this committee which 

 did not meet with the ai)proval of tlie Legislature was that 

 which called for work against the insect at all seasons and in 

 all forms. The act passed at the last session of the Legis- 

 lature, and under which the State superintendent is now at 



