252 



Page. 



Register of delegates and guests , 242 



Relation of birds to spread of blight 103 



Rumbold, Dr. Caroline, "Possibility of Medicinal Remedy for Chestnut 



Blight," 57 



Rumbold, Dr. Caroline, Report upon test of old spores, 241 



Research work to control blight , 46 



Resolutions adopted by the Conference, 206 



Resolutions , Committee on , 99 



Rothrock, Dr. Joseph T. , How to combat the chestnut blight, 123 



S. 



Sap, flow in chestnut trees, 65 



Scout work in Lycoming county , 23.") 



Selby, Dr. Augustine D. , Remarks by, 24 



Seventeen year locusts in chestnut grove, effects of, 95 



Sheep in cultivated chestnut orchards, 93 



Sheppard, Mr., Remarks by 126 



Smith, Dr. J. Russell, Effect of drought on trees, 118 



Smith, Dr. J. Russell, Chestnut blight and constructive conservation 144 



Smith, Dr. J. Russell, Value of chestnuts for stock food, 101 



Spaulding, Dr. Perley, Remarks by, 121 



Spores, how carried by birds and rain 105 



Spores , how spread , 46 



Spores, spread by air currents, 51 



Spores, varying kinds of, 190 



Spores, vitality oi, 217 



Spring, Mr., Report upon blight in Connecticut, 154 



Sproul, Hon. William C, Remarks by, 224 



Spruce moth or Nun , ravages of, 139 



State and Federal control and investigations , 184 



Stevens , F. R. , Remarks by , 203 



Stewart, Prof. F. C. , Controlling the chestnut bark disease, 40 



Surface, Prof. H. A. , Bird and insect life, 200 



Symptoms of the blight , 235 



T. 



Taft, President, Letter from 175 



Tannic acid , 221 



Taylor, William A., Report to Secretary Wilson upon the blight 179 



Tener , Gov. , Opening address by 15 



Tener, Gov. , Closing address by 227 



Temperature , effect of early growth , . 52 



Temperature, effect on germination , 52 



Thalheimer, A., Remarks by, 110 



Thalheimer, A. , Observations upon insect life, 211 



Thanks to Hon. R. A. P(»arson , Chairman , 222 



Theories regarding the chestnut blight 78 



Treatment of diseased trees 42 



Treatment of individual trees, .TO 



Tree doctors, harm done by , 165 



Tree surgery in treatment of blight , 62 



Trees , how grown from nuts , 98 



Trees injured by insects 185 



