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THE CHAIRMAN : We will dismiss the matter, then, with 

 the understanding that Mr. Weimer will take it up with the 

 Forestry Department, and if there is no objection, authority 

 is given to include the report of that investigation in the report 

 of this meeting. 



PROFESSOR GRAVES : I would like to ask Mr. Detwiler 

 a question about this dead- line. Is that going to be delimited 

 by cutting out all the chestnut, healthy and diseased, or is it 

 just simply an arbitrary line? I want to know this for in- 

 formation. 



MR. DETWILER: The dead-line which we plan to estab- 

 lish will be maintained by cutting out the diseased trees as 

 located by constant control; and we have not yet considered 

 cutting out all of the chestnut trees, unless the owners are 

 willing to do it. If, upon an explanation of the situation, the 

 owners are willing to do this, we have advised that it be done. 



PROFESSOR GRAVES: If this sort of work is going to 

 be taken up by the State, it seems to me it would be a good 

 plan to delimit all areas which contain no chestnuts. I have 

 the honor, Mr. Chairman, to be the gentleman who went through 

 the State of Massachusetts on a motorcycle, as Professor Rane 

 said this morning, and I found a great many areas there which 

 had no chestnuts at all, and some such areas I am sure occur 

 in Pennsylvania; so if you are going to take up this method, 

 it seems to me such areas ought to be marked out and then 

 start west of those. 



PROFESSOR NORTON: I desire to make a suggestion. 

 There may be a great deal of chestnut that must be cut and 

 utilized which might possibly over-stock the market. Why could 

 not the chestnut that is beyond the needs of the market have 

 the tannin extracted from it and stored for future sales, either 

 by corporations, individuals, or possibly by the State? I would 

 like to mention another question of a scientific nature that has 

 been suggested and which I think has not been brought out 

 sufficiently. Of course, those who are familiar with fungous 

 diseases understand this, but I believe that a good many people 

 who are not familiar with the nature of fungi would not appre- 



