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(1) Studying the progress of the disease on marked trees. 



(2). Setting out seedling chestnuts, including a few culti- 

 vated varieties, in infested forests, to see how the disease will 

 affect them. 



(3). Attempting control in a badly diseased private forest by 

 the cutting out method. This did not prove of value, and after 

 two seasons we have discontinued the work. Opening up the 

 forest there seemed harmful to the chestnuts left, especially on 

 south and west exposures. 



(4). Attempting control by the cutting out method in a state 

 forest where the disease was not conspicuous. This work has 

 just been started in our forest at Portland. Previous to 1911, 

 only a few diseased trees had been seen in this forest. Our pre- 

 liminary survey this winter, however, has shown it now present 

 more abundantly than we expected. On account of the time it 

 took to locate the diseased trees and the labor and cost of cutting 

 them out, we cannot advocate this as a practical method for 

 general use in the State, even if it proves successful, which we 

 doubt, since the disease is generally present in the neighbor- 

 hood. 



Recommendations. 



In Connecticut we are not asking the legislature for any 

 special appropriation to fight this disease, and do not expect to. 

 We are taking no concerted action to control it and we do not 

 think this feasible. We are only occasionally advising cutting 

 out, when the disease first appears, as a possible, though not a 

 proved method of control. Where a wood lot as a whole is mer- 

 chantable, and the disease is present, we advocate that, if market 

 conditions are favorable, it be cut and disposed of in the ordi- 

 nary way. Where the trees are not as a whole of marketable 

 size, and the disease is present, we advocate the removal of the 

 dying trees, and their disposal as poles, ties or cordwood, as 

 their size may permit. We have no uniform recommendations 

 for treatment of sprout growth too small for market purposes. 

 W r e are trying to prevent a glut of the market by discouraging 

 wholesale cutting of the forests, and as yet we have noticed no 

 general glut and drop of prices except for cordwood in certain 

 towns, and for 7x9 ties, for which the demand on the part of 



