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are not suffering from drought, neither are they suffering from 

 a scanty food supply. They are in good, thrifty condition. We 

 find that practically every chestnut orchard in the State is in- 

 fected with the chestnut disease. In Delaware, at least, I am 

 not inclined to believe tliat <lr >ught plays any part whatever in 

 the chestnut disease problem. 



THE CHAIEMAN: Is there any question? 



PEOFESSOE NORTON : I would like to ask if the blight is 

 equally bad on the Japanese chestnuts? 



PEOFESSOE McCUE : It would be rather hard to answer 

 that question definitely, because I do not know whether we have 

 any simon-pure Japanese chestnuts in Delaware or not. We 

 have a lot of varieties called Japanese, but the probabilities are 

 they are natural hybrids with the American; yet we have found 

 infection in the so-called Japanese chestnuts the same as in the 

 American. 



ME. WILLIAMS: What is Delaware doing to prevent the 

 shipment of infected stock beyond the borders of the State? 



PEOFESSOE McCUE: With the permission of the Chair, 

 I will refer that question to the secretary of the State Board of 

 Agriculture, Professor Webb, who has charge of the nursery 

 inspection work of the State. 



THE CHAIEMAN : Professor Webb, will you please inform 

 us what Delaware is doing to prevent the shipment of infected 

 nursery stock beyond the borders of the State. 



PEOFESSOE WEBB : I believe at the present time we have 

 no nurseries growing chestnut trees, but, if diseased chestnut 

 were found in them, the trees would be destroyed. 



THE CHAIEMAN : Maryland. As one of the secretaries of 

 the Conference, we have present Maryland's State Forester, Mr. 

 F. W. Besley. 



ME. BESLEY: As far as the chestmit bark disease is con- 

 cerned, I think all eyes are on Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania has 

 established, as it were, a great experiment station for the treat- 

 ment of the chestnut bark disease, and we are all looking with 



