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out gradually, and that market is uot flooded at the present 

 time. There is also a good market for cordAxood in most portions 

 of the State. 



I just waut to fiixy om^. other tiling in regard to Professor 

 Clinton's attitude toward this question: It seems to me that it 

 is an encouraging fact, if tlie points he has brought out are 

 found (o be true; I think it is a most encouraging statement; 

 I think that if favorable weather conditions are going to help 

 to bring the chestnut back to increased vitality, so that it may 

 be able to resist this disease, I think it should encourage ns to 

 eliminate as much of the infectious material as we can at the 

 present time, and thus aid nature in anything she can do to 

 restore the chestnut ta vitality. In New York State we have 

 had several articles in the newspapers, bringing this subject be- 

 fore tlie people. We have gone about the worlc of finding out where 

 our chestnut stands are, and have had the wood-lot sections, as 

 I say, ontside of tlie previously reported preserved area, brought 

 to onr attention. It occurs to me, who should get the credit for 

 L-ringing out these points? A\'ho should get the credit for this 

 Conference here to-day? Wlio should get the credit for calling 

 several conferences relative to the ntilizaliou of the chestnut, 

 and were those conferences worth while? It seems to me that it 

 slionld be given to the men who Avere willing to stake their scien- 

 tific reputations on something that could be tried, rather than to 

 give it to the men anIio were afraid to stake their scientific repu- 

 lalions, and wlio say, "It cannot be done." (Applause). 



THE CHAIRMAN: Is there any iiKjuii-y regarding the New 

 York situation and methods? 



.AlK. J. W. FISHER, of Tennessee: I would like to know 

 what per cent, of old timber, as against young timber, is infected 

 by this disease; whether or not the Aoung timber is the princi- 

 ])al timber that is infected. 



:MK. liARRUS: In those sections of New York Stale where 

 (he cliestnut disease is present, most of I lie marketable limber 

 has been cnt out, fire has gone through the remainder, and, as 

 the result, there is a great majority of the chestnut which is 

 sprout growth of small dimensions. I should estimate that 



