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held out by anybody with authority to offer it. If it has been done, 

 it has been by those without authority, or by men having no con- 

 nection with the service. 



In reference to the statement on page 1 7 of the estimate made by 

 " the Board, through its chairman," in 1894, 1 want to say that the 

 committee are entirely unfair in their treatment of these estimates, 

 for, by their own statement in this report, on page 11 , it will appear 

 that the conditions of the estimate have not been at all complied 

 with by the Legislature ; yet this investigating committee propose 

 to hold the gypsy moth committee or the Board responsible for 

 that estimate, when their side of the proposition has not been 

 fulfilled. 



Ou page 20 the investigating committee say: " The committee 

 herewith submit the stenographic report of that portion of the 

 testimony of one witness containing his views of the published re- 

 ports of the Board ; " and say : " The quotations from these reports 

 we make a part of this report ; the comments and criticisms of the 

 witness are his own, and he alone is responsible for them. We 

 make our own deductions." 



It is to be noted that the committee accepted these quotations 

 from the reports without investigation as to their accuracy, and 

 say: "We make the quotations from these reports a part of this 

 report." 



In the first paragraph the witness quotes from an alleged report 

 of 1890: "We have thoroughly investigated the outskirts, and 

 found but one case where it was beyond the limits of our first in- 

 vestigation." Now, Mr. Chairman, I want to say to you that there 

 was no report in 1890. This matter was not put into the hands 

 of the Board of Agriculture until 1891. The quotation could not 

 have been in a report, for there was no report extant. Possibly 

 he may have found a newspaper statement of what the first com- 

 mission may have said, but the gypsy moth committee had nothing 

 whatever to do with it. 



On page 21 this witness quotes from the report of 1891 : "In 

 the fall it was found only one- tenth as many as in the spring." 

 What the report said was : "It was found that iu the section 

 where they were most plentiful iu the spring there were compara- 

 tively few, not more than one-tenth the number there were last 

 spring." An entirely different statement. Then, again, he 

 qiiotes : "If eggs can be gathered, few will appear in the spring, 

 and can be easily destroyed." But the committee said: "The 

 committee believes the work of gathering the eggs throughout the 



