260 fifteenth annual report of the 



Minutes of Conference of State Foresters 



held at the office of the New York Forest, Fish and Game Commission, No. 

 i Madison avenue, New York city, June 28, 1909, to consider the matter 

 of a disease affecting white pine known as " European Currant Rust " 

 or " Blister Rust," imported from Germany. 



Hon. James S. Whipple, Chairman. 

 Present : 



Mr. W. O. Filley, Acting State Forester, New Haven, Conn. 



Mr. A. F. Hawes, State Forester, Burlington, Vt. 



Mr. Alfred Gaskill, State Forester, Trenton, N. J. 



Mr. F. W. Rane, State Forester, Boston, Mass. 



Mr. C. R. Pettis, State Forester, Albany, N. Y. 



Dr. Perley Spaulding, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Haven Metcalf, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Raphael Zon, Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 



Hon. R. A. Pearson, Commissioner of Agriculture, Albany, N. Y. 



Hon. J. S. Whipple, Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner, Albany, N. Y. 



Mr. Austin Cary, Superintendent State Forests, Albany, N. Y. 



Mr. G. G. Atwood, Chief Nursery InsjDector, State Department Agri- 

 culture, Albany, N. Y. 



Prof. J. W. Tourney, Yale Forest School, New Haven, Conn. 



Mr. H. R. Bristol, Forester, D. & H. R. R., Plattsburg, N. Y. 



Hon. George Aiken, Forest Commissioner, Woodstock, Vt. 



Mr. John Foley, Assistant Forester, Penn. R. R., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Prof. F. C. Stewart, State Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Geneva, N. Y. 



Mr. S. N. Spring, Consulting Forester, New Haven, Conn. 



Prof. C. C. Curtis, Prof, of Botany, Columbia University, N. Y. 



Hon. R. P. Bass, Forest Commissioner, Peterboro, N. H. 



Chairman. — Gentlemen, I assume we ought to get right at this matter 

 so that we can get our work done and get away. 



Some days ago Mr. Pettis, one of our foresters, called my attention 

 to the fact that it was evident that a disease, very dangerous to 



