282 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
The CuHarrMAN. That would be an increase? 
Mr. Howarp. It would be spending more money on that line of 
work than before. 
Mr. Bowre. What would be the actual increase? 
Mr. Howarp. About half of that. 
Mr. Bowrg. That is about $4,500, approximately ? 
Mr. Howarp. Yes. 
The Cuarrman. Have you got a statement like that for everything? 
Mr. Howarp. No, sir; we have not. 
Mr. Brooks. I want to ask you about entomology in connection 
with forestry. You propose to increase that work? 
Mr. Howarp. Very much. 
Mr. Brooxs. And in what sections of the country ? 
Mr. Howarp. Wherever there is a call for it. Two field sections 
have already been established. One in the Northwest and one in the 
Southeast; and two more seem to be urgently desired, one in the 
Southwest and the other in the Northeast. 
Mr. Brooxs. I think you said we were behind the European goy- 
ernments in our treatment of forest entomology ? 
Mr. Howarp. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Brooxs. Has there been a call from the Rocky Mountain region 
for work in that direction / 
Mr. Howarp. In the Black Hills, yes; and one over in the Yellow- 
stone Park. 
Mr. Brooks. Is it not true of the Rocky Mountain forest region 
that the destructive insects are increasing very rapidly now? 
Mr. Howarp. I have heard so. 
Mr. Brooxs. In the last two years there have been very serious 
depredations there, threatening the existence of the forests. 
Mr. Howarp. Some of the agents of the Bureau of Forestry have 
told me so. 
Mr. Brooxs. The fact will come out when Mr. Gifford Pinchot 
comes before us. 
The Cuarrman. The fact will come out. 
Mr. Brooks. I am not speaking of Colorado alone. 
Mr. Burueson. Is not that attributed to the destruction of birds in 
this country ? 
Mr. Brooks. I do not know, but it is a very serious question in 
regard to the water supply. Some cities in my section have attempted 
locally to deal with it, and the caterpillars would get into the water 
supply and appear in the bath tubs. I simply call attention to that. 
Mr. Howarp. You say the caterpillars defoliate the trees? 
Mr. Brooks. Yes; the deciduous trees, particularly. J have seen 
the whole side of a mountain, probably 10,000 acres, burned as though 
a fire had gone through it; and at the same time the city water supply 
would be very much damaged by the excreting of the insects, and the 
bodies themselves. The quaking aspen is very much attacked. There 
is one place where Mr. Pinchot wants to establish a forest reserve. 
There are trees there + feet through and 150 feet high that have stood 
there from the beginning of time, and they are being gradually cut 
down by the borers there. 
The Cuarrman. Is it extermination and death? 
Mr. Brooxs. Yes. That is, down along the New Mexico line. 
Mr. Scorr. In northeastern or northwestern New Mexico? 
