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I lie soiitlicrii, iiorllicrii, or castcni and WL'Steni .sides; that is, 

 whoMior yon found an}' infected trees on the eastern side of the 



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I'KOI'^IOSSOK CLINTON: It sliows iiiosl ri("(iii(Mii ly on tlic 

 eastern and southern si<le and around to the western and soutli- 

 ern side of exposed trees. Tliat is, the more northern sh)pes ai-e 

 j^enerally less affected, in our experience. Examine the chestnut 

 trees in Fairmount I'arJc in IMiiladelphia, and see if tlie blight 

 does not come out more on the western and southern sick'. Look 

 at your trees and see if you do not see injuries on that exposure, 

 that is, before the trouble becomes general. 



THE CHAIKMAN: New Y(uk State. 



MIv. G. L. BAlMiUS, of the Conservation Commission: Mr. 

 Cliairman: Eirst of all, 1 want to say that the commissioners 

 ami Sui)erintendent Pettis hoped to be here for this Conference, 

 bill wci'c nna\'oi(lably kepi a>Nay, and 1 regret to say that ^^•e 

 have not any delinite statistics to give as to the value of the 

 chestnut or the amount that has been destroyed. 1 think this 

 ([nest ion has brought up the need of such statistics; it it lias 

 not (lone anything more, it has brought up that need. \\\' have 

 been confining oni- efforts in New York, been routining this forest 

 policy to sixteen counties, which include the Adirondacks and 

 Catskills. About six million acres of forest land are included 

 in that area. Outside of that, there is another six million acres 

 of fai-m A\()od-lol land ,\\hicli has had little Ihoughl in llie past 

 as regards forest management. This (pu'stion of chestnut bark 

 disease has brought our attention to this other six million acres 

 of land. If it has not done auAthing more, it has done that, and 

 we are now (((ucerned in finding some way of branching out, tak- 

 ing care of and giving management to this portion of the forest 

 land of the State. 



As to the distribution of the chestnut, T might say that we 

 sent about four thousand circular letters throughout the State, 

 asking if (he chesinnf was found in the (owns where these differ- 

 ent ])ei'sons resided, and asking if the chestnut bark disease was 

 ])resent. The ])ublic showed their active interest in the subject 

 in the way they replied. We got over a thousand answers to 

 those letters, from all parts of the State, and in that way we are 



