14 CONNECTICUT EXPERIMENT STATION, BULLETIN NO. 178. 

 WORK DONE BY OTHER STATES. 



The work of studying and combating chestnut blight has been 

 taken up by the various states in various ways and on a larger 

 or smaller scale according to the views of the investigators and 







FIG. Vn. SMALL BRANCHES ON OPEN GROWN TREE KILLED BY BLIGHT. 



to the amounts of money appropriated for the work. Massachu- 

 setts has done some work in locating the diseased areas, but noth- 

 ing in the way of control measures, the same course being fol- 

 lowed by Rhode Island. Pennsylvania has expended $275,000 on 

 the study and work of combating the blight. Spraying, cut- 

 ting out infected trees, medication and tree surgery were tried, 



