oiiL .gradually, and Ilia I market is not IIocxUmI at the ijreseiit 

 time. Tliere is also a good market for cordwood in iiiost portions 

 of tlie State. 



I just Avaiit to sav one other tliinj;' in rei^ard to Professor 

 Clinton's attitude toward this ([nestion : It seems to me that it 

 is an enconraginj;' fact, if the i)oiiits he has brought out are 

 found to be true; I think it is a most encouraging statement; 

 I think tliat if favorable weather conditions are going to help 

 to bring the chestnut back to increased vitality, so that it may 

 be able to resist this disease, I think it should encourage us to 

 eliminate as much of the infectious material as we can at the 

 present time, and thus aid nature in anything she can do to 

 restore the chestnut to vitality. In New York State we have 

 had several articles in the newspapers, bringing this subject be- 

 foi-e the people. We have gone about the work of finding out where 

 our chestnut stands are, and liave had the wood-lot sections, as 

 1 sa}', outside of the pi-eviously reported preserved area, brouglit 

 to oui' a(l(Mition. It occurs to me, who should get the crcMlit for 

 bringing (uit these points? Who should get the credit for this 

 (;onference here to-day? Who should get the credit for calling 

 several conferences relative to the utilization of the chestnut, 

 inid were those conferences worth while? It seems to me that it 

 should be given to the men who were willing to stake their scien- 

 tific reputations on soincthing that could be tried, rather than to 

 give it to the men who were afraid <o stake their scientific repn- 

 tajions, and who say, "It cannot be done." (Applause). 



THE CIIAIItAIAN: Is there any in(piiry regarding the New 

 York situation and methods? 



Mil. J. W. FISHER, of Tennessee: I wmild like to know 

 what per cent, of old tindier, as against young timber, is infected 

 hj this disease; whether or not the young timber is the princi- 

 pal timber that is infected. 



MR. RARRUS: In those sections of New York State where 

 the chestnut disease is present, most of the marketable timber 

 has been cut out, fire has gone through the remainder, and, as 

 the result, there is a great majority of the chestnut which is 

 sprout growth of small dimensions. I should estimate that 



