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If the insect is really a serious pest, and it is considered decidedly 
unsafe to assume otherwise, an emergency appropriation of $1,000,000, 
immediately available, would seem the minimum amount which could 
be recommended and with our present knowledge plans should be 
made for the expenditure of approximately the same sum in the fiscal 
year of 1920-21. It is believed that such a program is justified on 
both practical and scientific considerations. It may mean the expendi¬ 
ture of some money which could be used to a better advantage when 
we come to know the problem more intimately though this would be 
more than offset, in our estimation, by effective action before there 
has been a greatly increased spread of the pest. This program is 
positive, conservative, so far at least as preventing injury is concerned, 
and appears to be the most logical which can be adopted at the 
present time. 
A Tentative Plan 
The situation is such that it seems advisable for the writer, without 
in any way attempting to dictate or to suggest that his opinion is better 
than that of others, to outline a plan which might be utilized as a basis 
for cooperation between federal and state officials. It is the result of 
repeated examinations of conditions in eastern Massachusetts and 
the writer’s familiarity with the situation in New York state and may 
well be considered as an elaboration of a plan outlined by Doctor 
Howard at the European corn borer conference last August. 
The maintenance of such quarantines and restrictions upon the 
growing and distribution of corn on the ear, cornstalks and other 
plants or parts of plants as may be justified by conditions is of prime 
importance. 
Special care should be exercised to avoid burdensome and unneces¬ 
sary restrictions and at the same time secure at least a moderate 
degree of protection. We are inclined to believe that the efficacy of 
quarantine measures can be greatly increased by restricting cropping 
somewhat as outlined below and that this latter would be much less 
burdensome than the attempt to enforce what might be regarded as 
thoroughly satisfactory quarantine regulations. 
Outline for Sparsely Infested Areas 
, 1. The continuance of the publicity campaign throughout the 
United States in an effort to secure general cooperation in locating 
infestations. 
It is significant, despite the limitations of this method, that the 
first information of the pest occurring in Schenectady and Erie coun¬ 
ties, New York, came to hand as a result of publicity work. 
