nted the chestnut with the tamarack
alternately all the way from Cleveland to Chicago. I examined the state
of Indiana across and from top to bottom several times in the summer and
I never saw any chestnuts there, but I have seen some newly planted
places in Michigan; near Battle Creek I saw a farm of about fifty acres.
We are having up in Ontario, beyond Toronto, a blight that has attacked
the Lombardy poplar and that looks similar to the chestnut blight. I
have been watching it for the last ten years and the tree seems to have
at last outlived it. It dies down and then a little sprout comes out
from the carcass.

The Chairman: Isn't that the poplar tree borer that always attacks the
Lombardy?

Mr. Corsan: Oh no, it's very similar to the chestnut tree blight. We can
grow chestnut trees all we like but no one has brains enough to grow
them. The farmers grow pigs and things but don't bother with chestnut
trees; consequently the chestnut blight does not exist there.

Mr. Pierce: I didn't answer a portion of Mr. Littlepage's question. Mr.
Littlepage asked whether or not the blight might be expected in the
Middle West. That depends, more or less, upon the results of the work
Pennsylvania is now carrying on. If we can keep the disease from
extending through the territory in which we are working, there is a very
good chance to keep it out of the West. If we are not successful, it may
be expected to develop, in time, over the whole chestnut range.

There seems to be a very good opportunity for growing the chestnut
commercially beyond its present range; that is, where it is so
infrequent as not to be in danger from infected growths nearby.

In the eastern part of the state different people have reported that the
blight seemed to them to be dying out and, a number of these reports
coming from a certain locality, the Commission decided to investigate
one which seemed to be better reported than the others. It was found,
after a very extensive investigation, that this dying out was true only
in the sense that it was not spreading, perhaps, as fast as it had been
spreading before. The mycelium and the spores were healthy and were
affecting the new trees in quite the same manner as the year before and
as in other parts of the state.

The Chairman: The question of controlling blight after it has appeared
is of very great consequence. Concerning any commercial proposition
with chestnuts the people are wide awake to the seriousnes