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quired to conduct the work only along the line of preventing 

 the spread of the gypsy moth. The committee further 

 believes that, if the Legislature is unwilling to provide suffi- 

 cient funds for restricting the spread of the gypsy moth and 

 holdino; it in check, the work should be discontinued en- 

 tirely. The committee is not in favor of appropriating 

 inadequate funds for the work in hand. It seems unjust to 

 require the extermination of the pest while providing inade- 

 quate means for the purpose. The Board of Agriculture 

 has recommended for each of the past two years an appro- 

 priation of one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, 

 1)elieving that sum was absolutely required for the success- 

 ful prosecution of the work. The Legislature has appro- 

 priated only one hundred thousand dollars, or about sixty 

 per cent of the sum asked for each of these years. 



In order to have the opinions of experts on the work as 

 carried on by the committee, and on the prospect for the 

 future, several entomologists from other States were invited 

 in 1893 to inspect the work and report to the committee. 

 Their opinions were given in the last annual report to the 

 Legislature. In June last Dr. Geo. H. Perkins of the 

 University of Vermont, entomologist of the Vermont State- 

 agricultural experiment station, and Prof. F. L. Harvey, 

 botanist and entomologist of the experiment station at the 

 Maine State College, were invited to visit the infested region 

 and inspect the work and report upon it to the committee. 

 Later, Prof. J. Henry Comstock of Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y., formerly United States entomologist, and Mr. 

 L. O. Howard, entomologist of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, were also invited and examined the 

 region and inspected the work. Professor Comstock made 

 a report to the committee, and Mr. Howard, later in his 

 annual address before the sixth annual meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation of Economic Entomologists, of which ho is presi- 

 dent, gave his impressions and opinions of the work. These 

 gentlemen all gave the committee the benefit of their crit- 

 icism and advice. Their opinions varied ; but, that the 

 Legislature may have the benefit of them, the reports of the 

 first three mentioned and so much of the address of Mr. 



