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thankful that the "chestnut" of the old appropriation is improv- 

 ing; that we have the two hundred and seventy-live thousand 

 dollars appropriated, and that we are getting out of it with 

 about twenty thousand dollars as far as it goes now. So I think 

 that the State of Pennsylvania lias done finely in taking the 

 initiative in this work. I pay tax on timber, and I want to pay 

 tax on timber-land. It is fair and square that we should pay it, 

 and let the gentleman that complains of it remember that none 

 of that tax goes into the State Treasury. 



THE CHAIRMAN: We wish to hear Professor Clark's reply 

 to the question, but there are a number of others who are pre- 

 pared to make remarks. The Chair would ask if you have any 

 instructions which you would give to govern our discussion 

 from now on. Do you wish to limit the length of the remarks? 



I will entertain a motion, if it is your desire. 







ME. E. A. WEIMEK, of Lebanon, Pa.: Mr. Chairman: I 

 would suggest that we limit our remarks to the chestnut blight. 

 I would also suggest that the speakers be very careful not to 

 bring out facts without careful consideration. The man on my 

 left here talked about the spores being sticky. He did not con- 

 sider that the spores were sticky only during a certain portion 

 of their lives. Another man on my right talked about the wood- 

 pecker, but he did not consider the fact that the woodpecker does 

 not pull out the grub with his feet, and that is about the only 

 place he could get the spores on. We want to be very careful 

 when we are going to get at any facts, not to hunt up facts to 

 base our arguments on, but to base our arguments on facts. I 

 suggest in the future that we deal only with questions dealing 

 with chestnut blight, and accept Mr. Sober's invitation to visit his 

 orchard when the chestnuts are ripe. 



DR. MICKLEBOROUGH, of New York State: Mr. Chair- 

 man, just a word with reference to the spread of the disease by 

 the spores : During the summer the conidial spores, those thread 

 spores which have been explained to us to-day, are produced 

 in myriads upon the diseased tree. The water, the rain will 

 readily dissolve those little sticky, pasty threads and, when they 

 are dissolved, it takes about eight or nine thousand, put end to 



