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tlie soutlKini, Jiortherii, or eastern mid weisterii .sides; that is, 

 Avlietlier you found any infected trees on the eastern side of the 

 mountain? 



rEOFESSOR CLINTON : It shows most frequently on the 

 eastern and southern side and around to the Avesteru and south- 

 ern side of exposed trees. That is, the more northern slopes are 

 generally less aifected, in our experience. Examine the chestnut 

 trees in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, and see if the blight 

 does not come out more on the western and southern side. Look 

 at your trees and see if you do not see injuries on tliat exposure, 

 that is, before the trouble becomes general. 



THE CHAIRMAN : New York State. 



MR. G. L. BARRUS, of the Conservation Commission: Mr. 

 Chairman : First of all, I want to say that the commissioners 

 and Superintendent Pettis hoped to be here for this Conference, 

 but were unavoidabl}^ kept away, and I regret to say that we 

 have not any delinite statistics to give as to the value of the 

 chestnut or the amount that has been destroyed. I think this 

 question has brought up the need of such statistics; if it has 

 not done anything more, it has brought up that need. We have 

 been confining our efforts in New York, been confining this forest 

 policy to sixteen counties, which include the Adirondacks and 

 Catskills. About six million acres of forest land are included 

 in that area. Outside of that, there is another six million acres 

 of farm wood-lot land ,which has had little thought in the past 

 as regards forest management. This (piestion of chestnut bark 

 disease has brought our attention to this other six million acres 

 of land. If it has not done anything more, it has done that, and 

 we are now concerned in finding some way of branching out, tak- 

 ing care of and giving management to this portion of the forest 

 land of tlie State. 



As to the distribution of the chestnut, I might say tliat we 

 sent about four thousand circular letters throughout the State, 

 asking if the chestnut was found in the towns where these differ- 

 ent persons resided, and asking if the chestnut bark disease was 

 present. The public showed their active interest in the subject 

 in the way they replied. We got over a thousand answers to 

 those letters, from all parts of the State, and in that way we are 



