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out gradually, and that market is not flooded at the present 

 time. There is also a good market for cord wood in most portions 

 of the State. 



I just want to say one other thing in regard to Professor 

 Clinton's attitude toward this question: It seems to me that, it 

 is an encouraging fact, if the points he has brought out are 

 found to be true; I think it is a most encouraging statement; 

 I think that if favorable weather conditions are going to help 

 to bring the chestnut back to increased vitality, so that it may 

 be able to resist this disease, I think it should encourage us to 

 eliminate as much of the infectious material as we can at the 

 present time, and thus aid nature in anything she can do to 

 restore the chestnut to vitality. In New York State we have 

 had several articles in the newspapers, bringing this subject be- 

 fore the people. We have gone about the work of finding out where 

 our chestnut stands are, and have had the wood-lot sections, as 

 I say, outside of the previously reported preserved area, brought 

 to our attention. It occurs to me, who should get the credit for 

 bringing out these points? Who should get the credit for this 

 Conference here to-day? Who should get the credit for calling 

 several conferences relative to the utilization of the chestnut, 

 and were those conferences worth while? It seems to me that it 

 should be given to the men who were willing to stake their' scien- 

 tific reputations on something that could be tried, rather than to 

 give it to the men who were afraid to stake their scientific repu- 

 tations, and who say, "It cannot be done." (Applause). 



THE CHAIKMAN : Is there any inquiry regarding the New 

 York situation and methods? 



MB. J. W. FISHER, of Tennessee: I would like to know 

 what per cent, of old timber, as against young timber, is infected 

 by this disease; whether or not the young timber is the princi- 

 pal timber that is infected. 



ME. BABBITS : In those sections of New York State where 

 the chestnut disease is present, most of the marketable timber 

 has been cut out, fire has gone through the remainder, and, as 

 the result, there is a great majority of the chestnut which is 

 sprout growth of small dimensions. I should estimate that 



