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tioii, wIkmi the disease has entered a forest of that extent. There- 

 fore, cut your tind)er that is likely to ;:;<> to waste first. Cut it 

 first, if favorable, and later, as the disease encroaches, cut other 

 tindx'r and use il and market it, so that you may not .uiut the 

 market. 



ME. Z1E(JLKK : .May 1 suggest that that is practically along 

 the line that is being followed by the Penna. lilight (Commis- 

 sion, so far as i have been able to h'ai-n of it. and that is the line 

 wo ho])e to foHoAv, following their advice. 



DR. MICKLEBOROU(ilI: Dr. :MnrrilI, have you been cut- 

 ting the chestnut growtli up at the IJimmix (Jai'den? 



DR. :Mri:RILi.: We are now cutting down the last trees. 

 It has cost us live thousand dollars U) cut down fourteen hun- 

 dred trees in fifty acres of the llronx Park. 



DR. M1(;KLEP»0R()U(JI1 : I w(Mild like to ask Dr. Murrill 

 another question, and that is, in the early stages of the disease 

 on western Long Island, where it is in the most malignant form, 

 if it was not his suggestion to the Park Commissioners in the 

 autnmn of 1907 or 1908, on acconnt of the prevalence of the dis- 

 ease in Prospect Park where there were tAvelve or fifteen Inm- 

 dred chestnut trees, and if you did iu)t also recommend to do 

 the cntting there? 



DR. MURRILL: That has been my reconnnendation, Mr. 

 Chairman, until we found it was ho])eless, and the area of the 

 disease was so great as to make it ])racfically impossible to cut 

 these trees. AVe have not been 5d)le to get money enongii a])])ro- 

 priated by tlie P;irks :ind public in New Voi-k City to cut out 

 the (lead wood caused I)y this disease. 



.Mr. Iv A. \\l':iMi:i{, of Lebanon, Pa.: .Mr. Cliairnian and 

 (ientlenien: I wonbl lii<e to addi-ess a few unscieiil i!i<' remarks 

 to the owners of wood lots or forests, and if my scientific friends 

 wish to listen, they may. 



I have been interested in forestry for twenty-four years and 

 have made a study of the chestnut blight during the past four 

 years. 1 think that I have the honor, with the Hon. :Mr. Elliott, 

 Avho is here, and Dr. Drinker, in discovering the first entry of 



