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This map represents the eastern portion of the United States 

 and the horizontal lines represent the approximate general dis- 

 tribution of the chestnut tree. It may not be exact. I think most 

 any of you who live at or near the border line represented here 

 would have some suggestions to offer, but the map has been com- 

 piled from as reliable general sources as we could obtain. Thus 

 we have the chestnut from northern Mississippi, through 

 northern Alabama and Georgia, northwestern South Carolina, 

 western North Carolina, up through this region and up into the 

 northwestern edge of Androscoggin county in Maine. In New 

 Hampshire and Vermont there are only a few chestnuts presenl, 

 as compared with the region farther south. Down I .h rough hei-e 

 (pointing to the southern Alleghanies), we have our great chest- 

 nut stand, particularly on the western slope of the mountains. 

 In the State of Connecticut a bulletin which was published with- 

 in a few years stated that probably more than fifty per cent, of 

 the forest trees in Connecticut were chestnuts. That was on 

 very good authority, and I do not hesitate to quote it. In Rhode 

 Island the chestnut is of a little less importance, but probably 

 pretty nearly half of the trees in Rhode Island are chestnuts. 

 The proportion further south I am not so well informed about, 

 but we have the bulk of the heavy chestnut timber south of the 

 Potomac River. The black area on the map represents the places 

 where practically all the chestnuts are now dead, and the various 

 forms of lines which are shown on the map represent varying de- 

 grees of infection, until we come down to the line right here. (In- 

 dicating). These vertical lines represent the approximate limits 

 of what you might call somewhat general infection. The black 

 spots which are shown there represent the outlying spots of infec- 

 tion, so far as we knew them in December. Here is the line 

 through Pennsylvania. The eastern part of Pennsylvania is 

 pretty well infected with the disease, and the work now being 

 done in this region, (indicating), will be told about a little 

 later by someone who is better informed than I am. 



In closing this address, I want to read just .a few words and, 

 if we can have the lights now, I will finish in about two or three 

 minutes. 



Having seen what this disease is and what it is doing, we now 

 come to the question which, I take it, we ;ire i;;i(here<l here to 



