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after their own trees, and I think forestry management will 

 ultimately solve the problem as much as anything. There are 

 lots of ideas that 1 Avould like to suggest; for instance, the com- 

 parative conditions as between insects and fungous diseases. We 

 have had a great time in handling the gypsy moth; but in their 

 case we can see the egg clusters, while, when you come down 

 to a fungous disease, it is quite another proposition and a propo- 

 sition also that it seems to me we cannot begin to fathom so 

 quickly as one can in the handling of the insect, (Applause). 



THE CHAIRMAN : Does anyone wish to ask one short ques- 

 tion of Professor Rane? 



PROFESSOR CLINTON: I understand when they began 

 the work in Massachusetts, they were going to locate the disease 

 and cut it all out, and that Professor Rane had the authority 

 to send men into private woodlands of the farmers of the State 

 and destroy those trees, if he saw fit. He has not done that. 

 Why? 



PROFESSOR RANE: As for the question of cutting out 

 the chestnut tree, that was our plan when Dr. Metcalf sent 

 liis man in, and we went all over it. I selected one of our best 

 woodchoppers and lie was to follow along and wherever the ex- 

 pert found a tree, we expected to find one in about every other 

 county in- Massachusetts, he was going to cut it out. This 

 fellow started out 'with an axe, and when we came to some old 

 trees that were about ten feet in circumference, and there was 

 some question as to whether the disease W 7 as there or not, but 

 they thought they had better cut it out anyway, this man did not 

 feel as if he was equal to the occasion. It was practically im- 

 possible to do anything along those lines and the trouble was 

 that, even among the experts, there was quite a discussion as to 

 whether the disease was prevalent or not. It is an impossible 

 problem to cut out under our conditions. The forestry manage- 

 ment end of handling the wood lot, and taking it out where you 

 can, I think is the practical solution. 



THE CHAIRMAN: Connecticut. 



PROFESSOR CLINTON : We have no appropriation in Con- 

 necticut to fight this trouble or to stop it. We have merely 



