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increase: "In answer to your question it is my opinion that the 

 disease around here has steadily increased in the past two years." 



George V. Smith, of Willington, says : "The blight is increas- 

 ing quite rapidly in this town. In 1911 I did not observe more 

 than a few cases. In 1912 I found it in colonies of infection. 

 Some men tell me they are finding it everywhere in chestnut 

 cuttings. Two years ago I did not find a tree on my farms. 

 Now there are many." Professor C. D. Jarvis, of Storrs, 

 writes, however: "Replying. to your letter, I would say that 

 in my opinion the chestnut bark disease has not been so con- 

 spicuous during the past year. Fewer new infections were 

 discovered, and the spread of the disease seems to have been 

 much slower in the sections where it was present." 



Windham County. Former Forester Spring collected the first 

 specimens we had from this county at Windham in September, 

 1910, while Filley and Stoddard reported it from several towns 

 in the fall of 1911. The last two towns in the state in which 

 we found the blight were in this county. The situation here 

 is about the same as in Tolland County, or perhaps somewhat 

 better, as we estimate only 5 to 10 per cent, of the trees infected. 

 Two reported the disease worse, and four as the same or better 

 in 1912 than in 1911. 



Mr. W. H. Hammond, of Hampton, writes: "So far as my 

 observation went on my own farm, I was of the opinion that 

 the blight did not spread last year as much as I expected, but 

 there were many reports of it in new sections of the surround- 

 ing towns." C. S. Hyde, of Canterbury, says: "I should 

 say the blight was about the same as in 1911, but if anything 

 not quite so prominent in this section." C. E. Child, of Putnam, 

 says: "Less prominent in 1912." On the other hand, C. A. 

 Tillinghast, of Danielson, writes: "I have found the chestnut 

 blight spreading quite rapidly in this section, much more in 1912 

 than in 1911." 



Future Outlook in the State. If we judge from what the 

 blight has already accomplished in Fairfield and New Haven 

 counties, and what it is now doing in certain parts of Litchfield, 

 Middlesex and Hartford counties, there does not seem to be 

 much hope for those regions where the blight has become firmly 

 established. There are those who believe that the blight is 

 bound to go on in the future just as it has in the past, which 



