262 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



APPENDIX. 



Report of Dr. George H. Perkins of the University op Ver- 

 mont, Entomologist of the Vermont State Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. 



Burlington, Vt., July 10, 1894. 

 Prof. C. H. Fernald. 



Dear Sir : — In accordance with your invitation to visit the 

 region infested by the gypsy moth, I went to Maiden, as you are 

 aware, and through tlte very cordial assistance of both yourself 

 and Mr. Ware, assistant director, was enabled to see in a most 

 complete and satisfactory manner the appliances used and the 

 various methods of using them. 



I wish to express my appreciation of the thorough and careful 

 manner in which the work was being done, and the evident desire 

 of those engaged in it to execute the trust committed to them as 

 faithfully and economically as possible. No work of the sort 

 which I have ever seen or heard of has impressed me as favorably 

 as did that of the officials engaged in the work of exterminating 

 the gypsy moth. 



The whole nation should be grateful to the committee for what 

 it has already accomplished ; for it is my belief that, had not the 

 work been so well done in Massachusetts, the insect would ere this 

 have spread beyond the borders of that State and now threaten 

 the whole land. It is most gratifying to find, instead of this, that 

 the ravages of the moth have been very much reduced by the 

 efforts of the committee. 



No one interested in economic entomology can investigate the 

 work in office and field without at once discovering that a vast 

 amount of very useful information has been gathered which should 

 not on any account be lost to science. On this account it is very 

 greatly to be desired that as full and complete a report as possible 

 of the work of the committee be published, for much that such a 

 report would contain would necessarily be of general and permanent 

 value. 



The question has been asked, Is it possible to exterminate an 



