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entire district infested should be completed in the most thorough 

 manner before the appearance of the eggs in the spring. If this 

 can be accomplished, we believe that the numbers of the caterpil- 

 lars that will appear in the spring will be comparatively small, and 

 that they will be so much scattered that they can be found and 

 destroyed without the spraying of the trees and shrubs of the 

 whole country." 



Again, the witness quotes : " Work throughout the season was 

 so effective that all the large colonies have been destroyed." 

 While this language is correct, it is entirely misleading, for the re- 

 port says, afterwards: "There is still a large area in which the 

 eggs have not been destroyed." 



The quotations in reference to 1892 are not correct, but in them- 

 selves are not particularly misrepresenting, but other modifying 

 statements are ignored, thus in effect misrepresenting the commit- 

 tee. The report for that year says: "There are large areas of 

 woodland in the infested towns. There are points in these forested 

 districts known to be infested. There are probably other points 

 where colonies have been established. There are about four hun- 

 dred acres of woodland which will, if it is allowed to remain, con- 

 tinue to be an uncertain element in our problem." 



The witness says, quoting from our report for 1893 : " The con- 

 dition of the infested territory is better than last year." What 

 the committee said is : " The condition of the wo7'st infested terri- 

 tory is believed to be better than it was one year ago." He 

 quotes : " The moth is now so rare in most of the towns that only 

 by close inspection can it be found." What the committee said 

 is: "As a result of the work already done, the moths are now 

 very rare except in limited localities in the central towns of the 

 infested district. But they are scattered here and there over a 

 large part of this whole area, in small colonies such as started from 

 the original importation by Mr. Trouvelot in Medford." In the 

 same report the committee said: "In this territory are about 

 twelve thousand acres of woodland which may be more or less in- 

 fested. Small areas here and there in the woodland are known to 

 be infested, while others may be." The committee also said : 

 "The committee had asked for an appropriation of $165,000 the 

 year before, so that this work might be done, but it received 

 only $100,000. Again, in January, 1894, it asked for the same 

 amount, but it was not given." 



I will not take your time to go over all these quotations in order, 

 but simply desire to call your attention to one other, under 1896, 



