266 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



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 Inspector, 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. Geo. 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. 



" The subject for which the conference was called was thoroughly dis- 

 cussed, and it is believed that no serious damage will occur, especially in 

 view of the prompt action taken by all of the states represented in imme- 

 diately proceeding to eradicate the danger caused by the appearance of the 

 disease in the few places it has been found. 



" Several of the northeastern states have imported large quantities of 

 small white pine trees for reforesting land, and in some of the shipments 

 the disease has been found. The affected trees, so far as we know, have 

 come from a single nursery, in Germany, and it is well known where the trees 

 have been planted, and for that reason it will be comparatively easy to take 

 care of the trouble if promptly attended to. Representatives of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture and of 

 the New York State Experiment Station have examined the diseased plants 

 and agree that a complete eradication may be made now. 



" The European Current Rust is a fungus disease which lives alter- 

 nately on the white pine and the currant bush. It is most serious on small 



