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Have noticed two or three instances where healthy growth 

 appears to be overcoming diseased portions." 



F. H. Stadtmueller, of Newington, says: "We have as yet 

 escaped any perceptible invasion of the chestnut blight in this 

 immediate vicinity, consequently can make no comparative 

 statements. Lumbermen of this neighborhood have reported it 

 less prevalent in 1912 than in 1911." 



New London County. Hodson (28) in 1908 reported the 

 blight along the Connecticut coast to New London, and about 

 that time or a year later Hazard, a Yale forestry student, 

 reported it present in North Stonington. The first specimens 

 we received from this county were sent from Gales' Ferry by 

 Dr. C. B. Graves in May, and from Lebanon by T. E. Clark, 

 in October, 1911. The disease does not seem so bad in this 

 county as in the preceding, and yet is worse than in the two 

 following counties. We estimate the number of infected trees 

 as between 15 and 25 per cent. Only three answers to our 

 letters were received, of which two said the disease was worse 

 in 1912 than in 1911, and one reported it about the same. 



Dr. C. B. Graves, of New London, writes: "I should say 

 the blight was just about the same as to general prevalence, but 

 it is my impression that the proportion of badly infected and 

 dead trees may be somewhat greater." Walter C. Tanner, of 

 Voluntown, says: "Where 1 noticed this blight in 1912, it was 

 much more conspicuous than in 1911." 



Tolland County. The writer saw specimens of the blight at 

 Mansfield in July, 1910; Filley collected specimens at Bolton 

 in November of the same year; and H. Wood sent specimens 

 from Tolland in April, 1911. As yet the blight has done com- 

 paratively little harm in this county, less than in any other 

 except perhaps Windham. We estimate the percentage of 

 infected trees to be between 10 and 15 per cent. Of the replies 

 received to our letter four place the disease as more, and three 

 as the same, or less conspicuous in 1912 than in 1911. 



E. G. Walker, of Union, writes : "There is very little chest- 

 nut blight in Union, and I do not think there was any increase 

 over 1911." George Towne, also of Union, says, however: 

 "More cases of the chestnut blight were observed by me in 

 1912 than in 1911. There is little doubt that it is spreading in 

 this locality." Harry Wood, of Rockville, also thinks it on the 



