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came from, not luiviiii:: l)0('ii iihiiilcil llici-c. In i^oiiiu; from here 

 to \\'asliiiiij;(oii, or i^oinj^" anjwlKMc, if I knew of any farmer who 

 lived in Llial iieigliborliood, i wonid ask liim wliat lie knew ahonL 

 it, and none of them could tell me. 1 was anxious to know and 

 see if I could not j^et that information. I wrote to the Forestry 

 Department at Washington, and could get no delinite informa- 

 tion there. One time in moving from one house to a new house 

 and in rearranging my library, 1 got liold of a book. The library 

 had belonged to a friend of mine, a lawyer, and I got some of his 

 books in remendjrance. 1 looked tlirougli tiiose l)ooks and I found 

 a book of birds, and among them 1 found a picture of a bird 

 called a "tree planter." It gave a description how that bird 

 traveled from Maine to Florida, traveled from the north to tlie 

 south and migrated again north, and they had a committee, — 

 I do not know whetlier it was a Committee of Thirteen or not, — 

 but tliey iiad a committee which would carr\^ tlie nuts and plant 

 them for food on botli ways. Tlien, down Soutli, thej- shoot 

 these tree planters and utilize them for food, and I snpi3ose there 

 are not enough coming back to pick up all the fruit which is 

 planted, and that this is the way it grows up into scrub oaks. 

 (Applause). 



l>llOFESSOK \V. D. CLARK, Fa., State College: Ladies and 

 Gentlemen: I came here to-day to this Conference because, 

 being a forester by training and by profession, I am vitally in- 

 terested in any movement wliich seeks in a practical way, to con- 

 trol or to eradicate the chestnut bliglit disease. I fully appre- 

 ciate the value and importance of the chestnut tree, both as a 

 timber producer, to enhance the aesthetic value of the landscape, 

 as a shade tree and as a nut producer, and I heartily favor the 

 l)nrsuit of scientiiic studies and experiments in order to deter- 

 mine whether or not there is a practical way, within tlie means of 

 human agencies, either to eradicate or control this disease. I 

 am, how^ever, very solicitous lest, on account of the obviousness 

 of this disease, the directness with which it works, the quickness 

 of its results, and the generally common knowledge of the dis- 

 ease, we W'ill become blind to (wo other diseases of trees which, 

 on account of their remoteness, their com])l('x ciiaracter and 

 their slow, insidious way of working, we are apt to fctrgct. I 



