INDEX. 



A. 



Act Treating riiestniit Tree Blight ruminission, 131 



Address of welcome by Governor Tener, 15 



Address by Chairman R. A. Pearson , 19 



Air currents as carriers of conidia , 51 



Appropriation to investigate blight, 45 



Appropriation by Penna. Legislature, 10(i 



Appropriation , how used , 205 



Ascospores , vitality of , 21"J 



Atwood , George G. , remarks by , 24 



Atwood , George G. , effect of drought , 110 



Attractions of Harrisburg, 123 



B. 



Backenstoe , Dr. J. M. , remarks by, 165 



Bacterial investigation, result of, 191 



Baker, Dr. H. P., The blight and practice of forestry, 137 



Barrus, G. L. , Report as to prevalence of blight in New York State, 158 



Beetles on chestnut trees , 184 



Benson, W. M., A possible remedy for chestnut blight 229 



Besley, Prof. F. W., Report upon the blight in Maryland, 1G9 



Birds and chestnut tree insects 200 



Birds as distributors of blight spores 103 



Birds in the chestnut groves 97 



Blight, medical treatment of the, 57 



Blight in New Jersey in 1898 102 



Blight, plan to combat, 140 



Blight, possibility of control 181 



Blight, infections in Lycoming county, 230 



Bodine, Samuel T. , remarks by , 20 



Braunberg, Mr., Value of I'enna. chestnut and daniage sustained 171 



Bureau of Plant Industry, Report on blight 177 



Burning stumps , necessity for, 213 



Burr worm , ravages of the , 95 



C. 



Cassell . Mr. , Remarks by 195 



Cause of chestnut blight 70 



Chestnut bark disease — can it be controlled? 40 



Chestnut bark disease — its remarkable spread, 44 



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