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came from, not having been planted there. In going from here 

 to Washington, or going anywhere, if I knew of any farmer who 

 lived in that neighborhood, I would ask him what he knew about 

 it, and none of them could tell me. I was anxious to know and 

 see if I could not get that information. I wrote to the Forestry 

 Department at Washington, and could get no definite informa- 

 tion there. One time in moving from one house to a new house 

 and in rearranging my library, I got hold of a book. The library 

 had belonged to a friend of mine, a lawyer, and I got some of his 

 books in remembrance. I looked through those books and I found 

 a book of birds, and among them I found a picture of a bird 

 called a "tree planter." It gave a description how that bird 

 traveled from Maine to Florida, traveled from the north to the 

 south and migrated again north, and they had a committee, 

 I do not know whether it was a Committee of Thirteen or not, 

 but they had a committee which would carry the nuts and plant 

 them for food on both ways. Then, down South, they shoot 

 these tree planters and utilize them for food, and I suppose there 

 are not enough coining back to pick up all the fruit which is 

 planted, and that this is the way it grows up into scrub oaks. 

 (Applause). 



PROFESSOR W. D. CLARK, Pa., State College: Ladies and 

 Gentlemen: I came here to-day to this Conference because, 

 being a forester by training and by profession, I am vitally in- 

 terested in any movement which seeks in a practical way, to con- 

 trol or to eradicate the chestnut blight disease. I fully appre- 

 ciate the value and importance of the chestnut tree, both as a 

 timber producer, to enhance the aesthetic value of the landscape, 

 as a shade tree and as a nut producer, and I heartily favor the 

 pursuit of scientific studies and experiments in order to deter- 

 mine whether or not there is a practical way, within the means of 

 human agencies, either to eradicate or control this disease. I 

 am, however, very solicitous lest, on account of the obviousness 

 of this disease, the directness with which it works, the quickness 

 of its results, and the generally common knowledge of the dis- 

 ease, we will become blind to two other diseases of trees which, 

 on account of their remoteness, their complex character and 

 their slow, insidious way of working, we are apt to forget. I 



