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iiicul, ill I'oimsylvjuiia will be held uyt as an example of a palrio- 

 lie movement of the entire people in an attempt to prevent the 

 destruction of onr native forests, which are going all too fast. 

 iSo this movement, it seems to me from my standpoint, is one 

 of the most commendable things which has been done by any 

 State in recent years and, even if no direct result is reached, we 

 can point with fjride to the attempt which has been made to 

 check the disease. 



At one point there occurred to me a little story that was told 

 in connection with the remarks of Professor Clinton this after- 

 r.oon, Avhen tiie paper of Professor Farlow was read. Professor 

 Farlow suggested that the chestnut blight came from Italy. A 

 friend of mine, a botanist in NeAV York city, said that he had 

 often noticed that around the settlements of Italians in the 

 jieighborhood of NeAV York and Brooklyn and Jersey City, these 

 smaller settlements that the Italians made outside the city, that 

 the trees always died or were killed, and he thouglit there was 

 some relation betAveen the death of the trees and the settlement 

 of the Italians nearl)}^ So he suggested r;ather a curious name 

 for this malady which attacked the trees — he said it was a form 

 of "Dagoeatis." So perhaps, if Professor FarloAv's views are 

 correct, the trees which were killed on Long Island suffered from 

 a form of "Dagoeatis." That, you may observe, has no scientific 

 relativity in the discussion of this subject. 



Mil. CHESTER E. CHILD, President Luml)er IMauufjtcfiir- 

 ers' Association of C(Miuecticut: Mr. Cliairmnu : I noticed ou the 

 map presented this afternoon tliat it appears that chestnut trees 

 are i)ractically dead in three-(|uarfers of Connecticut. I noticed 

 coming down on the train, between New Haven and New York, 

 that there are a great many dead chestnut trees, and yet there 

 remain a great nmny that are alive. I know that along the 

 Connecticut River, where the blight is supposed to be working 

 quite freely, that in a tract of timber which was sold on account 

 of the blight being in it, it was slated that at least ten per cent, 

 of ili(^ chestnut trees A\ere afifected. I knoAv I wo men about sixly 

 years of age who state that they are positive that they saw this 

 blight twenty years ago, or something that looked the same as 

 is shoAvn in the blight to-day, — that they saw the same thing 

 twenty years ago. I would like to ask, unless the information 



