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afler their own trees, and 1 tliiiik loresti-y inaiiageiiieiil will 

 ultimately solve the prohleiii as iiiuch as anything. There are 

 lots of ideas that 1 would like to sugi^est; for instance, the com- 

 parative condilions as iK'tween insects and lunnous diseases. We 

 have had a great time in liJindling the gypsy moth; but in their 

 case we can see the egg clusters, while, when you come down 

 to a fungous disease, it is quite another jU'opositiou and a propo- 

 sition also that it seems to me we cannot begin to fathom so 

 (juickly as one can in the handling of the insect. (Applause). 



Till'] CHAIRMAN: Does anyone wish lo ask one short qnes- 

 lion of I'rofessor Kane? 



rKOFES.SOR CLINTON: I understand when they began 

 the work in Massachusetts, they were going to locate the disease 

 and cut it all out, and that Professor Kane had the authority 

 to send men into private woodlands of the farmers of the State 

 and destroy those trees, if he saw lit. He has not done that. 

 Why? 



rKOFESSOR KANE: As for the question of cutting out 

 the chestnut tree, that was our plan Avhen Dr. Metcalf sent 

 his man in, and we went all over it. I selected one of our best 

 woodchoppers and he was to follow along and wherever the ex- 

 pert found a tree,- — we expected to find one in about every other 

 county in Massachusetts, — he was going to cut it out. This 

 fellow started out with an axe, and when we came to some old 

 trees that were about ten feet in circumference, and there was 

 some question as to whether the disease was there or not, but 

 they thought they had better cut it out anyway, this man did not 

 feel as if he was equal to the occasion. It was practically im- 

 possible to do anything along those lines and the trouble was 

 that, even among the experts, there was quite a discussion as to 

 whether the disease was prevalent or not. It is an impossible 

 problem to cut out under our conditions. The forestry manage- 

 ment end of handling the Avood lot, and taking it out where you 

 can, I think is the practical solution. 



THE CHAIRMAN: Connecticut. 



PROFESSOR CLINTON : We have no appropriation in Con- 

 necticut to fight this trouble or to stop it. We have merely 



