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In Connecticut. We shall not attempt to give any figures for 

 the loss in Connecticut. To do this, one would have to determine 

 the future value of sprout growth, and with more mature timber, 

 to determine the difference between what one really got out 

 of it and what he would have received if there had been no 

 blight. Some idea of the loss, however, can be gained by an 

 estimate of the chestnut in our forests and the percentage 

 already injured by the blight. 



Hawes and Hawley, in their forest survey of Litchfield and 

 New Haven counties, estimate the forest land in Litchfield as 

 55 per cent., and that in New Haven as 46 per cent., of their 

 area. This gives a total of something over five hundred thousand 

 acres of forest for these two counties. While considerable of 

 this is in brush and some in white pine, by far the most of it 

 is mixed hardwoods, with chestnut forming about 60 per cent, 

 of these in Litchfield and 70 per cent, in New Haven County.- 

 Counting in all the forest land, Litchfield probably would run 

 over 45 per cent, chestnut and New Haven over 50 per cent., 

 according to these authors. Probably no other county of the 

 state has proportionately so large a part of its area in forest 

 as Litchfield, according to State Forester Filley, but on the 

 other hand, New London is probably the only one that has a 

 less proportion than New Haven County. 



On the whole, it is perhaps safe to estimate 40 per cent, of 

 all the forest land of the state as being chestnut. The census 

 for 1910 gives the lumber cut of chestnut in this state for that 

 year as 58,810,000 feet B. M., or nearly equal to that cut from 

 all other trees. These statements show how extensive the tree 

 is in our forests, and how useful. When we consider that from 

 5 to 90 per cent, of the chestnuts in different parts of the state 

 have already been attacked by the blight, a clearer idea of 

 the great loss already caused may be gained, especially in 

 Fairfield County, where over large areas there is scarcely a 

 chestnut tree to be found that is not either killed or infected 

 by the blight. 



PRESENT SITUATION AND FUTURE PROSPECTS IN CONNECTICUT. 



In order to give some idea of the damage already done in 

 different parts of the state, the botanical and forestry depart-- 



