February, ’20] 
MARLATT: EUROPEAN CORN BORER 
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better, to be used in testing on a comprehensive scale any measures 
likely to give a considerable degree of relief and greatly delay if not 
prevent the invasion of the corn belt by the European corn borer. 
The conditions are such that we question seriously the wisdom of 
making demonstrations on such a limited scale as will permit the 
pest to greatly extend its range during the season or seasons this 
practical work is in progress. We must endeavor to hold the insect 
and at the same time ascertain the possibilities in relation to control. 
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Vice-President Ruggles: This paper is now open for discussion. 
Mr. C. L. Marlatt: I hope this body will not be alarmed at the 
volume of the documents I am carrying. This bundle includes a few 
papers to which I may wish to refer. 
I agree with Dr. Felt heartily as to most of his discourse. I hardly 
think he will want me to agree with his criticism of a certain member 
of the Horticultural Board. I am glad to say that this criticism is 
founded largely on misinformation. The facts are all a matter of 
record. The $500,000 supplemental estimate, to which he referred 
and which is still before Congress, was transmitted to Congress by the 
Secretary of Agriculture on July 29, 1919, in connection with an urgent 
deficiency bill then under consideration and, therefore, long before 
the hearing granted by the Senate Committee to representatives of 
various states on October 8 following. The first hearing on this 
estimate was August 23, 1919, at which hearing Messrs. Quaintance 
and Walton of the bureau presented the argument as to the needs for 
the money. Both Dr. Howard and the speaker were at that time 
absent from Washington. At the hearing on October 8, 1919, both 
Dr. Howard and the speaker were present. The speaker’s remarks 
were chiefly in calling the attention of the committee to the Secretary’s 
letter in which is voiced and explained the need for the additional 
$500,000 to meet the corn borer situation during the season of 1919-20. 
The speaker is perfectly willing to accept the responsibility for what¬ 
ever influence he may have exercised in developing the determination 
of the amount which was so recommended. 
Dr. Felt: May I ask just one question? I thought, and I am 
speaking in all honesty, that you said that $500,000 was all that could 
be used. 
Mr. Marlatt: I pointed out that that was the amount submitted 
by the Secretary of Agriculture and that that sum, with the existing 
$250,000, making a total available fund of $750,000, was believed by 
the department to be sufficient to cover the survey and cleanup work 
which could be wisely and profitably carried out in the season 1919-20. 
The amount of funds that can be so utilized is a question which 
