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consideration. I take it that we want in this Convention, to 

 know everything that is known concerning the chestnnt blight 

 and from that to deduce onr conclusions. In that respect I am 

 prepared to present all that I know and my views on the subject, 

 in order that the truth, if such is known at present, may come 

 out. 



THE CHAIRMAN : The District of Columbia. This in- 

 cludes the Federal Department of Agriculture. Is Professor 

 Collins in the room? 



PROFESSOR J. FRANKLIN COLLINS, Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. : I am not prepared to make 

 any remarks for the District of Columbia. I come from anotlu^r 

 direction. I have no remarks to make particularly. 



THE CHAIRMAN : We will give you an opportunity later, 

 Professor Collins. 



The Dominion of Canada. (No response). 

 Delaware. 



Dr. WESLEY WEBB: Mr. Chairman, Delaware sends a 

 delegate up here to learn tlie situation. Delaware itself is pretty 

 thoroughly infested with this disease. Every chestnut growth 

 and every forest has diseased trees in it. The only way to destroy 

 the disease in Delaware, in my opinion, is to destroy every chest- 

 nut tree and clean it up. I doubt if any measures short of that 

 would be successful; but still, something may be learned here 

 that will modify that opinion. 



THE CHAIRMAN: Georgia. (No response). 

 Illinois. (No response). 

 Indiana. (No response). 

 Maryland. 



MR. J. B. S. NORTON : Mr. Chairman, I had supposed that 

 Professor Patterson would speak for our State, as he is inter- 

 ested from the forestry standpoint, and I am interested in the 

 Experiment Station from the nursery standpoint. We will have 

 a problem to meet in our State in controlling this disease, and 

 I am sure we are very actively interested in this work, because 

 we are in the same condition as a few other States. We have a 

 large part of our area already infested, and a considerable part 



