INDEX, 



I Agl*. 



Act creating Chestnut Tree Blight Commission, 181 



Address of welcome by Governor Tener, 15 



Address by Chairman R. A. Pearson , 19 



Air currents as carriers of conidia, 51 



Appropriation to investigate blight, 45 



Appropriation by Penna. Legislature, * 106 



Appropriation , how used , 205 



Ascospores , vitality of , 219 



Atwood , George G. , remarks by , 24 



Atwood , George G. , effect of drought , 110 



Attractions of Harrisburg, 123 



B. 



Backenstoe, Dr. J. M. , remarks by, 165 



Bacterial investigation , result of, 191 



Baker, Dr. H. P., The blight and practice of forestry, 137 



Barrus, G. L. , Report as to prevalence of blight -in New York State, 158 



Beetles on chestnut trees , 184 



Benson, W. M., A possible remedy for chestnut blight, 229 



Besley, Prof. F. W., Report upon the blight in Maryland, 169 



Birds and chestnut tree insects , 200 



Birds as distributors of blight spores , 103 



Birds in the chestnut groves , 97 



Blight , medical treatment of the , 57 



Blight in New Jersey in 1898 102 



Blight , plan to combat , 140 



Blight , possibility of control , 181 



Blight , infections in Lycoming county , 239 



Bodine , Samuel T. , remarks by , . 20 



Braunberg, Mr., Value of Penna. chestnut and damage sustained, 171 



Bureau of Plant Industry, Report on blight, 177 



Burning stumps , necessity for, 213 



Burr worm , ravages of the , 95 



C. 



Cassell , Mr. , Remarks by 195 



Cause of chestnut blight , 70 



Chestnut bark disease can it be controlled? 40 



Chestnut bark disease its remarkable spread , 44 



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