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J'K()IM':SS()R JiAXK: Mr. Cliairiiiaii jind ( '.ciiIIcukmi <.f ilic 

 CoiivcHtioii : III si> far as Massaclni.sett.s is i-(Hieeriu'(l, we have 

 this clicstinil hark disease and we have also gone at il in wliat 

 seems lo ns a jn-aclical way. I simply a\ isli to give yon an idea 

 of iiow we are tackling the problem. In the first place, the dis- 

 ease was fonnd seattxn'ed here and there. 1 made arrangennMits 

 AN'ith l>i-. .Melcalf, hecanse I considered he was the man of the 

 honi- {() give ns instrnctions and ideas, to go forward and carry 

 onl (his work. Dr. Melcalf came on lo Hoston and we wenl oxci* 

 the whole proposition, and tinally arranged lo have a man come 

 on last spring and go over the whole Stale. lie spent the 

 months of Jnne, Jnly, and Angnst, visiting on a motorcycle all 

 the forest sections of the Slate, to stndy the prohlem, and we 

 fonnd tjiat the disease was far more prevalent than even Di-. 

 Metcalf realized. Now when the report came ont from Dr. .Met- 

 calf's assistant, the lirst idea he conveyed to ns was that tin; 

 Slate of ^rassachnsetts shonhl call n])on its Legislatnre for a 

 lai-ge snm of money. Most of yon knoA\- nmlonltledly that \\r 

 have been tackling the gypsy and browntiiil moth problems, and 

 that these depredations, which have been pretty mnch conline*! 

 to Massachnsetts, and more recently Xew iram])shire and 

 Maine have incnrred mnch expense. Now we have been tackling 

 problems more or less of this sort and, as State Forester, I cer- 

 tainly^ did not wish to make the mistake of plnnging into this 

 chestnnt disease problem l)efore I was sntlficiently familiar with 

 it. We have a pretty thorongh organization in ^Fassachnsetts 

 (Vom the forestry nianagemenl slandi»oinl, and of the ]»a])ers and 

 uiscnssions that have come n]) here, the one that pleased me per- 

 haps most was the talk that was given by Trofessor Baker of the 

 State rollege. (Jentlemen, it seems to me that in spite of the 

 qnestion of onr needs for plant mycologists and specialists, that 

 the necessary thing is lo get fnrlher at the root of the tronble, and 

 that is to introdnc(^ a better organization in this present develop- 

 ment of onr forest states and nation, a more definite forestry 

 management from a fnndamental stamlpoint. The whole prob- 

 lem, it strikes me, of insect and fnngns depredations, is one of 

 looking at it and stndying it from the broader view^point, namely 

 that of the system of forestry nuinagement. We have had the 

 gypsy and browntail moth work in Massachnsetts, more or less 



