380 CONNECTICUT EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT, IQI2. 
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 4o 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 go 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- 
