58 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE THIED ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



(2) Each raiyat or landholder must arrange for a daily collection 



of moths on his own lands. 



(3) The work in each village will be under the charge of a fieldman 



of the Agricultural Department who will keep a record of 

 work done on each holding and of the number of moths 

 picked. 



(4) In cases where raiyats or landholders neglect to carry out the 



above operations a report will be made to the Amildar unless 

 delay is likely to prejudice the operations in which case the 

 fieldman in charge of operations in the village will make the 

 necessary arrangements to pick the moths and intimate the 

 cost to the Amildar. The Amildar will arrange to get the 

 work done by the raiyaf concerned but if he fails this may be 

 done by Government Agency and the expenses incurred 

 will be charged to the raiyats or landholders concerned and 

 collected as arrears of land revenue. 



(5) Payments will be made for the moths picked at rates fixed by 



the Director of Agriculture but the total amount paid for 

 picking work in any one village shall not exceed Rs. 20. 



(6) Picking will continue for 45 days or until such time as in the 



opinion of the officer in charge there is no danger of further 

 emergence of the moths. 



(7) Villages in these hoblis which are in the opinion of the Director 



of Agriculture not Ukely to sufier from the pest will be excluded 

 from the operation of the Regulation. 



(8) Copies of a circular giving full information with regard to the 



pest and the measures to be taken against it will be distri- 

 buted to the raiyats of the villages concerned not later than 

 the 10th May 1918. 



(9) The officer in charge of the operations will be stationed at a 



central place (Sasalu) throughout the period during which 



combative measures against the pest have to be continued. 



He will visit the villages and will explain to the raiijats in 



detail the requirements for effectively deahng with the pest, 



the labour required, the period during which operations will 



have to be carried on and all other information necessary 



for the efficient control of the pest. 



Work has already been done in previous years, in several of the villages 



in these two hoblis so that raiyats were familiar with the operations. 



Nevertheless, well in advance of the picking season, circulars on the 



pest and the regulations were printed in Kannada and circulated in all 



the villages. ^Vhat the Department proposed to do and what help was 



