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PK0FP:S^0R TLTXTON: I do iK.t know that I iiiadc tlie 

 stiiteiiiiMit that ii,v]>sv iiioih work in Alassacliansct Is was not 

 effective. 1 said it mcanl a h)ii«^ light and a continuous (ight. 

 This cliestnut bliglit, from the re-infection, would nnike tlie fight 

 a continuous one. You could not do it uj) and leave it there. 

 Yon would have to keep at it forever, provided the material con- 

 tinned. JJegardiiii; llie ])eacli veHows law, my statement was 

 that they droi)])ed that. The reason it was dropped Avas because 

 it nmde so much trouble with the farmers, by going into their 

 <<rcliards. Yon would lind that same dilliculty with the farmers 

 in rcniisylvania that you wonld in Connect icnt. 



1)K. MEUKEL, of X. Y. : .Mr. (Iiairman: 1 have been on 

 in\' feet cont iniionsly ever since Mr. Williams spoke, and was 

 about to give it up. Some of the points 1 wanted to bring out 

 have already been brought out. However, I want to thank ]Mr. 

 AN'illiams. I want to thank the great State of Pennsylvania for 

 passing that law. Pennsylvania has shown all the other States 

 in the Union wiiat it is t ) i^ass an unselfish law. If we could 

 only have a Federal law that would be as broad as the law of 

 l*ennsylvania ought to be and could easily be made, by simply in- 

 serting the words after "the chestnut tree blight,"' '^and any other 

 fungous or insect pest,'' we would have no trouble with our fun- 

 gous or insect pests after a certain length of time. Sometime ago 

 I wrote that only when we considered a tree that is dangerously 

 infected with an insect or fungous pest as dangerous as a person 

 Infected with smallpox or as a rabid dog, will we get rid in our 

 forests of insect and fungous ])ests. I was very glad to liear that 

 ^Ir; Williams and the mend)ers of the (Commission have not be- 

 come discouraged by the large amount o'f cold water that has been 

 thrown on their plans. I am sure that tlie two hundred and 

 seventy-live thousand dollars that the State of Pennsylvania has 

 a|>propriated will never be missed, even if no b(Mieficial results 

 jii'e (fbtaine<l; but that the everlasting shame that the State of 

 I'ennsylvania would sulfei- if she made no attempt to save her 

 chestnut trees, should be enough not to discourage any and all 

 citizens from unseltish effort for their fellow men. 



GEORGE (J. ATAA^OOD, of New York: Mr. Chairman: 

 There is a little desk in Albany that has been open for al)out a 



