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doubt but that an annual income of at least one million dollars could be per- 

 manently secured from the chestnut timber alone, were these mountain for- 

 ests managed in a conservative way. Chestnut is the tree best adapted to all 

 situations in our mountains, and is the tree that comes soonest to financial 

 maturity, while its use for lumber, for telephone poles, for tanning extract, 

 and for pulp, makes it the most widely useful tree commercially of any in 

 that region. 



Can we afford to lose this important source of revenue without a struggle? 

 We certainly can not. 



Every member of this Association can do something towards delaying or 

 preventing the invasion of this State by the chestnut bark disease by writing 

 to his Congressman to support the bill now before Congress, which calls for 

 an appropriation of $80,000 for the use of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, to be used in a thorough study and investigation of this tree 

 disease, with the view of devising ways and means to combat its further 

 spread. If this bill is passed, the department would undoubtedly send ex- 

 perts into North Carolina the coming summer to watch out for this disease 

 and to plan a campaign to prevent its invasion or its further spread, should 

 it appear in this State. I think also that this Association, as a body, should 

 go on record as approving this bill. 



Every person who goes into the woods where chestnut grows, should make 

 a point of looking out for this disease and reporting it to the Government as 

 soon as it is discovered, that immediate steps may be taken to combat it. 



In order that I need not take up valuable time with a description of the 

 appearance of this disease, I have brought a sterilized sample, which was 

 sent me by the Bureau of Plant Industry, which all who are interested can 

 examine. Anyone who has once seen it will have no difficulty in recognizing 

 this disease. 



For detailed description and suggested methods of control, I would refer you 

 to Farmers Bulletin 467. issued by the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, and to the report on the Harrisburg Chestnut Bark Disease Confer- 

 ence which will no doubt be published without delay by the Chestnut Blight 

 Commission of Pennsylvania. 



Mr. E. B. Mason, an expert in the office of Forest Insect Investiga- 

 tions of tlie United States Bureau of Entomology, who the past year was 

 in charge of the Spartanburg (S. C.) Field Station of that office, which 

 was charged with conducting a campaign for the control of the Southern 

 Pine Beetle through the South Atlantic States, was then introduced. 

 Mr. Mason's address was as follows : 



THE SOITHERX PI>E BEETLE AND ITS CONTROL. 



By E. B. Masox, United States Bureau of Entomology. 



Gentlemen: — It is a great pleasure for me to be present at this meeting 

 for three excellent reasons: 



First, because the first State recognition of our efforts to show the people 

 of the South how to save their pine from the attacks of the Southern pine 

 beetle was from North Carolina. 



