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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 I9gII. 
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 jtist as it has in the past, which 
