﻿Professor 
  Reddick 
  : 
  I 
  have 
  very 
  little 
  that 
  I 
  can 
  add 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  

   time. 
  The 
  points 
  the 
  talk 
  has 
  raised 
  here 
  are 
  of 
  the 
  greatest 
  importance, 
  

   and 
  there 
  is 
  certainly 
  room 
  for 
  a 
  great 
  many 
  people 
  to 
  work, 
  though 
  

   here 
  in 
  this 
  state 
  we 
  have 
  only 
  one 
  man 
  who 
  is 
  devoting 
  his 
  attention 
  

   particularly 
  to 
  this 
  disease. 
  I 
  find 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  work 
  that 
  

   Professor 
  Collins 
  is 
  doing, 
  and 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  Pennsylvania 
  

   work, 
  that 
  there 
  are 
  some 
  people 
  engaged 
  on 
  these 
  very 
  vital 
  and 
  im- 
  

   portant 
  problems. 
  They 
  are 
  not 
  giving 
  any 
  particular 
  attention 
  to 
  field 
  

   work, 
  but 
  are 
  working 
  on 
  these 
  special 
  problems. 
  I 
  think 
  you 
  all 
  ap- 
  

   preciate 
  that 
  progress 
  of 
  investigations 
  on 
  this 
  kind 
  of 
  subjects 
  is 
  rather 
  

   slow, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  meantime 
  the 
  man 
  who 
  has 
  his 
  trees 
  and 
  his 
  nurseries 
  

   blighting 
  is 
  surely 
  up 
  against 
  it. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  only 
  one 
  thing 
  in 
  mind, 
  a 
  thing 
  which 
  I 
  suggested 
  to 
  Mr. 
  

   Rankin 
  when 
  he 
  first 
  started 
  on 
  this 
  work, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  thing 
  which 
  

   Doctor 
  Peck, 
  our 
  state 
  botanist, 
  suggested 
  at 
  the 
  chestnut 
  bark 
  confer- 
  

   ence 
  that 
  was 
  held 
  in 
  Albany 
  not 
  long 
  since. 
  Doctor 
  Peck 
  says 
  that 
  

   he 
  has 
  lived 
  a 
  good 
  while, 
  and 
  he 
  has 
  seen 
  epidemics 
  come 
  and 
  go. 
  

   Certain 
  plants, 
  certain 
  varieties 
  were 
  threatened 
  with 
  extermination, 
  

   yet 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  time 
  they 
  are 
  still 
  with 
  us. 
  I 
  suggested 
  to 
  Mr. 
  

   Rankin 
  that, 
  while 
  it 
  looked 
  as 
  if 
  chestnut 
  blight 
  was 
  going 
  to 
  be 
  with 
  

   us 
  indefinitely, 
  the 
  chances 
  were 
  it 
  would 
  all 
  be 
  gone 
  before 
  he 
  had 
  a 
  

   chance 
  to 
  find 
  out 
  all 
  the 
  things 
  he 
  thought 
  he 
  was 
  going 
  to. 
  Our 
  

   friend 
  Doctor 
  Clinton 
  of 
  Connecticut 
  would 
  have 
  us 
  think 
  it 
  is 
  only 
  

   a 
  matter 
  of 
  a 
  few 
  years 
  to 
  have 
  conditions 
  come 
  around 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  

   chestnut 
  blight 
  will 
  not 
  be 
  a 
  thing 
  of 
  serious 
  importance. 
  In 
  other 
  

   words. 
  Doctor 
  Clinton 
  stoutly 
  maintains 
  that, 
  while 
  this 
  fungus 
  is 
  doing 
  

   so 
  much 
  now, 
  it 
  is 
  largely 
  due 
  to 
  the 
  condition 
  to 
  which 
  our 
  trees 
  have 
  

   come, 
  owing 
  to 
  a 
  succession 
  of 
  very 
  unfavorable 
  summers 
  and 
  winters 
  ; 
  

   and 
  as 
  soon 
  as 
  the 
  conditions 
  get 
  around 
  to 
  normal, 
  the 
  disease 
  will 
  be 
  

   no 
  more. 
  Some 
  of 
  us 
  are 
  not 
  inclined 
  to 
  agree 
  with 
  him 
  entirely. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Craig 
  : 
  Perhaps 
  you 
  can 
  tell 
  us 
  what 
  Mr. 
  Rankin 
  has 
  

   been 
  doing 
  this 
  year. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Reddick 
  : 
  At 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  the 
  past 
  summer, 
  from 
  

   the 
  surveys 
  and 
  observations 
  that 
  had 
  been 
  made 
  almost 
  entirely 
  by 
  

   the 
  United 
  States 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture 
  authorities, 
  it 
  was 
  known 
  

   that 
  the 
  chestnut 
  disease 
  had 
  extended 
  up 
  the 
  Hudson 
  River 
  perhaps 
  

   as 
  far 
  as 
  Poughkeepsie. 
  It 
  was 
  our 
  idea 
  that 
  he 
  would 
  probably 
  find 
  

   the 
  border 
  line 
  of 
  healthy 
  and 
  diseased 
  trees 
  somewhere 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  

   of 
  Poughkeepsie, 
  so 
  Mr. 
  Rankin 
  located 
  it 
  opposite 
  Poughkeepsie 
  at 
  

   Highlands. 
  During 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  the 
  summer, 
  the 
  assistance 
  of 
  the 
  

   State 
  Survey 
  Commission 
  and 
  the 
  State 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture 
  

   was 
  enlisted, 
  and 
  there 
  were 
  six 
  or 
  eight 
  men 
  who 
  spent 
  part 
  of 
  July 
  

   and 
  all 
  of 
  August 
  surveying 
  the 
  portion 
  which 
  now 
  appears 
  on 
  this 
  map 
  

  

  