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willing to do so after they found a market for the product which 

 enabled them to follow our regulations without expense, or per- 

 haps at a profit. The Commission, by acting as a clearing house 

 to bring buyer and seller together, will be able to assist ma- 

 terially in solving this problem. There are over thirty com- 

 mercial uses for chestnut wood, and it seems likely that all the 

 chestnut wood which will be produced can be utilized, provided 

 it can be delivered to factories and other consumers at a price 

 which will allow it to compete with other woods. The solution 

 of this problem seems to lie in lower frieght rates on chestnut 

 products. All classes of chestnut products will probably become 

 more or less of a glut on the market, unless rates can be secured 

 which will enable such material to find a market over a much 

 wider territory than at the present. The greatest present diffi- 

 culty however lies in the disposal of chestnut cordwood. 



Pennsylvania's programme may be summed up as doing all that 

 can be done along the lines indicated to save the chestnut trees. 

 If successful, we shall be most happy ; if we fail, after an honest 

 fight, we shall have the satisfaction of knowing that it ha been 

 money wisely spent. Even though we accomplish no more than 

 to secure the best utilization of the blight killed material, the 

 expenditure of money and effort is justified; and in addition, we 

 have the educational value along forestry, conservation, and 

 pathological lines; an object lesson to the State and Nation, of 

 which we must not lose sight. 



Pennsylvania hopes for two great results from this conference ; 

 first, the united effort of the states here represented in attempting 

 the control of the chestnut blight, and second, assistance from 

 users of chestnut products in devising ways and means of profit- 

 ably disposing of the products of diseased trees. The other thing 

 needful to ultimate success, that is, the complete scientific facts 

 of the disease, will be obtained in the course of time through sys- 

 tematic investigation, through the collection of facts, not through 

 hypotheses. (Applause). 



THE CHAIRMAN: The next paper is entitled "Chestnut 

 Blight and the Practice of Forestry in Pennsylvania," by Dr. 

 H. P. Baker, Department of Forestry, State College, Penna. 



