Conference for Preventing the Spread of the 

 Chestnut Tree Bark Disease. 



OPENING SESSION 

 Tuesday, February 20, 1912, 2 o'clock, P. M, 



CALL TO OKDEK AND ADDKE8S OF WELCOME TO DEL 



EGATES AND VISITING FRIENDS, IJY THE HON. 



JOHN K. TENER, GOVERNOR OF 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



(i()\10RX()R TENJ^R: (Iciilk'iiicn, llic iiiLrtiiig will please 

 he ill order. 



Let me any at the outset, speakiug for this Comiuoinvealth and 

 less for myself personally, that A\e are gratified indeed at the 

 splendid representation here to-day, l)earing testimony to the 

 great interest manifested in the work at hand. 



I know tliat many of jou have come from afar, many of you at 

 great inconvenience and certainly at expense to yourselves or to 

 the State or Association that 3'ou represent, in order that you 

 might meet with us here, in the Capital City of Pennsylvania, 

 to discuss and to consider seriously the objects and the pur- 

 poses of this meeting. 



It is not my purpose to enter into an extended discourse upon 

 the subject of the chestnut tree blight or bark disease, but 

 rather to extend just a word of welcome to you, on behalf of 

 onr Commonwealth and our city, and also to suggest what might 

 be proper for your consideration at this time; to go over briefly 

 the extent of this disease in the area it now covers; what it 

 means to us if it spreads farther, and what it has meant to ns; 

 the value of our chestnut trees, and a suggestion of what I hope 



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