CHESTNUT BARK DISEASE. 381 
ments of the Station, after consideration of all the data avail- 
able, have made approximate estimates of the percentage of 
chestnut trees attacked in each of the counties. To gain more 
immediate information as to the condition in the different 
counties, the writer recently sent the following letter to about 
seventy-five men scattered over the state who have been especi- 
ally interested in the blight and have had a chance to watch 
local conditions: “In 1911 the blight was more widely reported 
to us and was apparently more generally conspicuous than in 
any previous year. What we wish to learn from you is whether 
it was, where you observed it in 1912, more prominent, less 
prominent, or just about the same, as in 1911.” Information 
gained by this and other means is given by counties as follows: 
Fairfield County. The blight was first found by Mr. Stevens, 
Jr., of Stamford in the summer of 1907, and reported soon 
afterward to the Station. From Mr. Hollister’s observations 
at Greenwich, the disease no doubt occurred in the county at 
least as early as 1905. The injury has been greater here than 
in any other county, and is apparently now on the decline, since 
most of the trees have been attacked or killed. The Station 
estimates 75 to 85 per cent. of the trees already dead or infected. 
In answer to our letter, three report the blight worse, and 
four about the same or less conspicuous in 1912 than in I9QII. 
Mr. F. A. Bartlett of Stamford writes: “The chestnut is 
practically extinct in Fairfield County.” Mr. Joseph Cornwell 
of Norwalk says: “From my observations the chestnut blight 
was far more conspicuous in 1912 than in 1911. In 1912 I 
made a special trip into the woods for the purpose of exam- 
ining the undergrowth, and found it more affected by the 
disease than at any earlier period. My observations were made 
in Wilton, Norwalk, Westport, Ridgefield and Redding.” 
Dr. R. T. Morris, who owns a farm near Stamford, says: 
“In the different years since the blight appeared some of my 
neighbors in the country have stated that they have observed 
more rapid progress than before, and others have expressed the 
opinion that we had less blight than before. As a matter of fact, 
so far as I can judge, there has been pretty steady progress of 
the blight from the first, and at the present time I do not know 
of a single unblighted tree in the vicinity of Stamford, Conn., 
although my men and I have taken long walks for the purpose 
