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ment in Pennsylvania will be held up as an example of a patrio- 

 tic movement of the entire people in an attempt to prevent the 

 destruction of our native forests, which are going all too fast. 

 So this movement, it seems to me from my standpoint, is one 

 of .the most commendable things which has been done by any 

 State in recent years and, even if no direct result is reached, we 

 can point with pride to the attempt which has been made to 

 check the disease. 



At one point there occurred to me a little story that was told 

 in connection with the remarks of Professor Clinton this after- 

 noon, when the paper of Professor Farlow was read. Professor 

 Farlow suggested that the chestnut blight came from Italy. A 

 friend of mine, a botanist in New York city, said that he had 

 often noticed that around the settlements of Italians in the 

 neighborhood of New York and Brooklyn and Jersey City, these 

 smaller settlements that the Italians made outside the city, that 

 the trees always died or were killed, and he thought there was 

 some relation between the death of the trees and the settlement 

 of Hie Italians nearby. So he suggested rather a curious name 

 for 1 lii's malady which attacked the trees he said it was a form 

 of "Dagoeatis." So perhaps, if Professor Farlow's views are 

 correct, the trees which were killed on Long Island suffered from 

 a form of "Dagoeatis." That, you may observe, has no scientific 

 relativity in the discussion of this subject. 



MR. CHESTER E. CHILD, President Lumber Manufactur- 

 ers' Association of Connecticut: Mr. Chairman: I noticed on the 

 map presented I his afternoon that it appears that chestnut trees 

 are practically dead in three-quarters of Connecticut. I noticed 

 coining down on the train, between New Haven and New York, 

 that there are a great many dead chestnut trees, and yet there 

 remain a great many that are alive. I know that along the 

 Connecticut River, where the blight is supposed to be working 

 quite freely, that in a tract of timber which was sold on account 

 of the blight being in it, it was stated that at least ten per cent, 

 of the chestnut trees were affected. I know two men about sixty 

 years of age who state that they are positive that they saw this 

 blight twenty years ago, or something that looked the same as 

 is shown in the blight to-day, that they saw the same thing 

 twenty years ago. I would like to ask, unless the information 



