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have been re-inspected, the evidence is that our work has been 
very good. There was some return of the disease, of course, 
as was to be expected, but a rather small percentage.” 
Experiments in Connecticut. In Connecticut there has been 
no appropriation of money by the state to investigate the chest- 
nut blight, arid none has been asked for. Such work as has 
been done has been carried on by the, botanical and forestry 
departments of this Station with funds at hand, and in connec- 
tion with their other duties. There has been no attempt to 
enforce state control of the disease, or to eliminate it by the 
cutting out and quarantine method. There has been no demand 
for such treatment on the part of those interested. Preliminary 
surveys have shown that the disease now exists in all the towns, 
and in some of them to such an extent that any attempt to 
gain control of the fungus by the cutting out method, even if 
successful, could only be made at a cost disproportionate to 
the good that would be accomplished. Add to this the constant 
watch that would have to be maintained against re-infection, 
the opposition that would be aroused among some property 
owners by the enforced cutting, and we have sufficient reason 
for not attempting such a program in this state. Then, too, 
none of the surrounding states, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, or 
New York, is attempting such control. 
In order, however, to gain some idea of the value of the 
cutting out method, two experiments, in codperation with the 
forestry department, have been conducted in this state. The first 
was at the Whittemore estate in Middlebury, and was largely 
preliminary in nature, being carried out by Mr. Shepardson, 
manager of the estate, at our suggestion, but not immediately 
under our control. The disease was rather bad in certain of 
the woods on this large estate, and in a special effort to pro- 
tect those nearest the residence, the removal of all infected 
trees was started in 1910. These woods have now been gone 
over four different years, each time removing all trees of 
whatever size showing cankers. Apparently this removal has 
had little effect in decreasing the disease in these particular 
woods. A count was not made of the number removed each 
year, except that Mr. Shepardson states that more were removed 
in the winter of 1913 than in all previous years. In these 
woods, something over one hundred acres, forty or fifty of 
