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tion, when the disease has entered a forest of that extent. There- 

 fore, cut your timber that is likely to go to waste first. Cut it 

 first, if favorable, and later, as the disease encroaches, cut other 

 timber and use it and market it, so that you may not glut the 

 market. 



ME. ZIEGLER : May I suggest that that is practically along 

 the line that is being followed by the Penna. Blight Commis- 

 sion, so far as 1 have been able to learn of it, and that is the line 

 we hope to follow, following their advice. 



DR. MICKLEBOROUGH : Dr. Murrill, have you been cut- 

 ting the chestnut growth up at the Bronx Garden? 



DR. MURRILL: We are now cutting down the last trees. 

 It has cost us five thousand dollars to cut down fourteen hun- 

 dred trees in fifty acres of the Bronx Park. 



DR. MICKLEBOROUGH: I would like to ask Dr. Murrill 

 another question, and that is, in the early stages of the disease 

 on western Long Island, where it is in the most malignant form, 

 if it was not his suggestion to the Park Commissioners in the 

 autumn of 1907 or 1908, on account of the prevalence of the dis- 

 ease in Prospect Park where there were twelve or fifteen hun- 

 dred chestnut trees, and if you did not also recommend to do 

 the cutting there? 



DR. MURRILL: That has been my recommendation, Mr. 

 Chairman, until we found it was hopeless, and the area of the 

 disease was so great as to make it practically impossible to cut 

 these trees. We have not been able to get money enough appro- 

 priated by the Parks and public in New York City to cut out 

 the dead wood caused by this disease. 



Mr. E. A. WEIMER, of Lebanon, Pa.: Mr. Chairman and 

 Gentlemen : I would like to address a few unscientific remarks 

 to the owners of wood lots or forests, and if my scientific friends 

 wish to listen, they may. 



I have been interested in forestry for twenty-four years and 

 have made a study of the chestnut blight during the past four 

 years. I think that I have the honor, with the Hon. Mr. Elliott, 

 who is here, and Dr. Drinker, in discovering the first entry of 



