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carried on our iuvcstij^atioiis with llis usual appropi-iai ions of 

 our State. We are asking for no special fund. 



I have a paper which 1 desire to present, and 1 ^ant to state 

 that it is signed not only l»y myself as l»o(aiiist, but also by ^Fr. 

 Spring, State Forester: 



CHESTNUT r.lJCilT SITUATION IN CONNECTICUT. 



First Reports. 



The first specinuMis of chestnut blight from Connecticut were 

 sent (o the Experiment Station in November, 1!M)7, by F. \'. 

 Stevens of Stamford, who had found the disease doing consider- 

 able damage in his region during that snmmei-. lie also stated 

 that he thought he had seen the disease in one or two otliei* towns 

 in the state. Since that report, others have stated to us that 

 thej had seeu the disease earlier, but had not known its nature 

 at the time. For example, Mr. C. H. Hollister, who is here to- 

 day, states that in tlie summer of 1905 he found a tree on the 

 Edgewood l*ark Estate at Greenwich that In^ now believes to 

 have had the blight. Our forester reports that a farmer in the 

 town of Easton also noticed the disease as early as 1905. These 

 three towns are all in Fairfield county, next to New York State. 

 In the winter of 1909, Mr. Newton J. Peck brought a specimen to 

 the Station fr(»m Woodbridge, New Haven County, and state*! 

 that he had noticed the disease in his forest for four or five yeai-s. 

 So far, then, we have no information of tlie presence of the dis- 

 ease in Connecticut before 1905. 



Huhscqnciit Reports. 



In the report of the Connecticut Experiment Station for 190S, 

 we noted the disease in twenty-two of the tw-enty-tliree towns 

 of Fairfield County, in eight towns of New Haven County, and 

 we had an unverified rei)ort of its occurrence in New London 

 County, in the eastern ])art (►f the State, making thirty-one towns 

 in all. 



In the Station report for 1909-10, we listed the disease from 

 all the tw^euty-three towns of Fairfield County, twenty-one towns 

 of New Haven County, fourteen of Litchfield, seven of Hart- 

 ford, tw^o of Middlesex, three of Tolland, one of Windham and 

 one of New London County. Thus we fouml llui disease jn-esent 



