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deaux mixture. The Bordeaux mixture was effective in a 

 majority of cases in preventing a recurrence of the disease around 

 the wounds where the cankers were removed and new infections 

 elsewhere on the tree. The Bordeaux mixture, however, is useful 

 only in killing the spores which rest on the outside of the tree 

 and has no effect whatever on the fungus which is growing 

 beneath the bark. Dr. Caroline Rumbold has carried on exten- 

 sixe experiments to test the effect of various toxic substances 

 when injected in the tree. She has been successful in getting 

 various liquids to circulate throughout the sap wood of the tree, 

 but no chemical has yet been found which will kill the blight 

 fungus without also killing the tree. However, the results 

 obtained by Professor Bolley of North Dakota in ridding plums 

 of black knot indicate that there is a possibility of a cure for the 

 blight, eventually being found by this method- 



On April 14th officials of the U. S. Division of Forest Path- 

 ology, the Forest Service, State Forestry officials from Connecti- 

 cut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West 

 Virginia held a conference to discuss the results of the investi- 

 gation now being conducted by the Forest Service on the 

 utilization of blight-killed chestnut. Valuable information 

 was presented by the Forest Service from the data already col- 

 lected and the situation was gone over in detail, state by state. 

 It was found that the market for poles, ties, lumber and staves 

 was good and that in some instances prices had increased. The 

 difficulty lies in the disposal of the cordwood. So far as the 

 effect of the blight upon the value of the wood for various pur- 

 poses is concerned, it has been the general observation that there 

 is no harmful effect, the wood being similar to that from chestnut 

 which dies from other causes. 



The foresters and lumberman in attendance at the Fourth 

 National Conservation Congress at Indianapolis in 1912, held 

 several informal sectional meetings. Out of these grew a plan 

 for promoting intelligent public sentiment regarding forestry and 

 lumbering, and for collecting, compiling and disseminating 

 authoritative data and general information on subjects of broad 

 interest. After various conferences during and after the 



