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mitted, according to the law, to buy any stationery, stamps, etc., to be 

 used in correspondence, nor is he permitted, according- to this, to make 

 any publications to his people as to what he is doing. The commission 

 in this county has carried on really most of its work through the 

 Orchardists' Association and by publications. This county has been 

 at very little expense as far as the commission is concerned. That was 

 one of the first points brought up when the commission was organized, 

 that no one should ever set up the claim that the commission was of 

 any great expense to the county. I will say that the newspapers, at 

 all times, have had their columns open to the commissioners. By organ- 

 izing we have had the support and backing of the people, but we have 

 not been permitted, according to the law, to go to the expense of any- 

 thing. Now. again. There are no appropriations under this law 

 Avhereby a commissioner can carry on experiments or investigations. 

 "We might take the best man obtainable and his hands are tied. All 

 he can do is to look at an orchard and say, "You go and clean that 

 up." It does not seem that he is even authorized to tell the man how 

 to do it. The supposition is that he will tell him what to do. I say 

 that any man who is competent under this new law to fill the office is 

 competent to carry on experiments to see if he can devise ways and 

 means whereby he can cheapen remedies or take a short cut towards 

 the extermination of insects or find new processes. Now. to illustrate, 

 in our own county. We were up against the codling moth a few years 

 ago. We sent for bulletins from the State University and to the Horti- 

 cultural Commission for information as to how to handle the codling 

 moth. They sent down their bulletins, and in every case it said, "Use 

 Paris green every two weeks, about sixteen times during the season." 

 They used Paris green, and the consequence was it burned the foliage, 

 and if we had not taken this matter up and gone at it and had a 

 thorough investigation made and tests made, the codling moth would 

 have destroyed our orchard industry. The University, of course, did 

 most of the work, but we had to stand a portion of the expense, and 

 after calling on the University and after they had solved the problem, 

 we saw fit to retain one of their men. We became ashamed of our- 

 selves, calling on the University for four years. They solved the prob- 

 lem and showed us the remedy. They showed that by using a good 

 brand of arsenate of lead we could control the insect and there would 

 be no damage to the foliage. We were not satisfied. We wanted to 

 find out how few times we could spray and how small an amount of 

 material we could use in the application and get good results. We have 

 this man still at work, and he is still striving to cheapen the method of 

 eradicating these pests. And I say that there should be a provision in 

 the law whereby the supervisors would have the power to set aside a sum 

 for the use of the commissioners. I think those points should be care- 

 fully considered. 



MR. KELLOGG. Will you please give the points to-morrow, where 

 you would recommend the amendment of the law, to the Committee on 

 Resolutions, either to Mr. Judd or myself ? 



MR. BISHOP. As to the report to the supervisors, this is a per 

 diem job and not a salary job, and they want you to make the monthly 

 report so they can know how many days you worked and what you did. 

 Furthermore, I don't believe the commissioner has time to carry on any 



