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iiiciil ill rciiiisN Ivaiiiii will Im- Im-M ii|i ;i.s :iii cxaiiiplc <»r a [lalrio- 

 lic niovcinciiL of tlic ciitirt' ik'()j»1c in an aU('iii[il to pruvcnt lli<* 

 • h'sdnctiou of oiir native lorcsls, wliicli are J^oiiij; all too fast. 

 So (liis nioveiiieiit, it seems to me from my standpoint, is on(i 

 of I lie most (•oiiiiiiciKJalilc IJiiiius which has hccii (Ioik; liy any 

 Stale in recent years and, even il no dircict result is reached, wc 

 can ])()int with pride to the adeiiijit wliich has lieen made to 

 check the disease. 



At one point there occurred to me a little story that was told 

 ill coiiikmI ion with the i-cniarks of Pi-ctfessor (Minion Ihis aftrr- 

 nooii, when tin; pa])er of I'rofessor I'arlow was read. J*rofessor 

 I'arlow su.i;.i;('sted that the chestnut blight came from Italy, A 

 frieinl of mine, a botanist in New York city, said that he had 

 often noticed tliat around the settlements of Italians in the 

 neighborhood of New York and Brooklyn and Jersey City, these 

 smaller settlements that the Italians made outside tin; fity, that 

 the trees always died or were killed, and he thought there Avas 

 some I'clation behvccii the (h'alli of the trees and the settlement 

 of Die Italians nearliy. So he suggested rather a curious name 

 for this malady which attacked the trees — he said it was a form 

 of ^'Dagoeatis." So perhaps, if Professor Farlow's views are 

 correct, the trees which were killed on Long Island suffered from 

 a form of "Dagoeatis," That, you may observe, has no scientific 

 relativity in the discussion of this subject, 



MR. CIIESTEE E, CHILD, President Luml»cr Mamifaclur- 

 ers' Association of Connecticut: Mv. Chairman: I noticed on tin? 

 map ]>resented lliis afternoon that it, appears that chestnut trees 

 are ]»ractically dead in three-quarters of Connecticut. I noticed 

 ccnning down on the train, between New Haven and New York, 

 that there are a great many dead chestnut trees, and yet there 

 remain a great many that are alive. I know that along the 

 Connecticut Kiver, where the blight is supposed to be working 

 quite freely, that in a tract of timber which was sold on account 

 of the blight being in it, it was stated that at least ten per cent,* 

 of the chestnut trees A\ere affected. I know two men about sixty 

 yeai's of age who state that they are positive that they saw this 

 blight twenty years ago, or something that looked the same as 

 is sliown in the blight to-day, — that th(?y saw the same thing 

 twenty years ago, I would like to ask, unless the information 



