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This map represents the eastern portion of the United States 

 and the horizontal lines represent the approximate general dis- 

 tribution of the chestnut tree. It may not be exact. I think most 

 any of you who live at or near the border line represented here 

 would have some suggestions to offer, but the map has been com- 

 piled from as reliable general sources as we could obtain. Thus 

 we have the chestnut from northern Mississippi, through 

 northern Alabama and Georgia, northwestern South Carolina, 

 western North Carolina, up through this region and up into the 

 northwestern edge of Androscoggin county in Maine. In New 

 Ifampsliire and Vermont there are only a feAV chestnuts present, 

 as compared with the region farther south. JJowii through here 

 (pointing to the southern Alleghauies), we have our great chest- 

 nut stand, particularly on the western slope of the mountains. 

 In the State of Connecticut a bulletin which was published with- 

 in a few years stated that probably more than fifty per cent, of 

 the forest trees in Connecticut were chestnuts. That was on 

 very good authority, and I do not hesitate to quote it. In Rhode 

 Island the chestnut is of a little less importance, but probably 

 pretty nearly half of the trees in Rhode Island are chestnuts. 

 The proportion further south I am not so well informed about, 

 but we have the bulk of the heavy chestnut timber south of the 

 Potomac River. The black area on the map represents the places 

 where practically all the chestnuts are noA\' dead, and the various 

 forms of lines which are shoAvn on the map represent varying de- 

 grees of infection, until we come down to the line right here. (In- 

 dicating). These vertical lines represent the approximate limits 

 of what you might call somewhat general infection. The black 

 spots which are shown tliere represent the outh-ing spots of infec- 

 tion, so far as we knew them in December. Here is tlie line 

 tlirougli Pennsylvania. The eastern part of Pennsylvania is 

 I)retty well infected with the disease, and the work now being 

 done in this region, (indicating), will be told about a little 

 later by someone who is better informed than I am. 



In closing this address, I want to read just a few words and, 

 if we can liave the lights now, I will finish in about two or tliree 

 minutes. 



Having soph wlial (his disease is and what it is doing, we now 

 come to the (|ii('sli<»ii wliich, T take il, we are galhei'ed here to 



