Hon. J. 8. Whipple, Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner, 

 Albany, N. Y. 



Austin Gary, Superintendent of State Forests, Albany, N. Y. 



G. G. Atwood, Chief Nursery Inspector, Department of Agri- 

 culture, State of New York. 



Prof. J. W. Tourney, Yale Forestry School, New Haven Conn. 



H. R. Bristol, Superintendent of Woodlots, D. & H. Railroad, 

 Plattsburg, N. Y. 



Hon. George Aiken, Forest Commissioner, Woodstock, Vt. 



John Foley, Assistant Forester, Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Prof. F. C. Stewart, State Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Geneva, N. Y. 



S. N. Spring, Consulting Forester, New Haven, Conn. 



Prof. C. C. Curtis, Professor of Botany, Columbia University. 



Hon. R. P. Bass, Forest Commissioner, Peterboro, N. H. 



It was unanimously agreed that no serious damage should result 

 if prompt and efficient action is taken at once by all of the States 

 concerned to eradicate all danger caused by the appearance of the 

 disease at the few places where it has been found. Several of the 

 northeastern states besides New York have imported large quanti- 

 ties of white pine seedlings for reforesting lands and a consider- 

 able number of private parties have also made importations. Thus 

 far the trees positively known to be affected are believed to have 

 come from a single nursery in Germany. Every effort is being 

 made to trace all shipments from the nursery concerned, as well 

 as to carefully examine other foreign importations. Valuable 

 assistance is being given by the Federal Department of Agricul- 

 ture. All persons in this State who have planted pine tree seed- 

 lings are urged to carefully study and carry out the recommenda- 

 tions below and to communicate with the Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture at once if suspicious symptoms are found. To succeed 

 quickly in preventing danger from the disease it will be necessary 

 to have the co-operation of all concerned. Operations have been 

 started in other states. It is a disease that cannot be discovered 

 until it has developed for a year and for that reason any inspec- 

 tion at the docks on arrival of trees could not be effectual. 



At a conference held in the office of the Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture, attended by experts of the Department of Agriculture, 

 Forest, Fish and Game Commission and the State Experiment 



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