ces as stenographer at our
meeting. That was done, I believe, at Guelph, and it involves a lot of
important work.

Mr. Korn: I second the motion.

(Vote taken, motion carried unanimously.)

President Davidson: Shall we adjourn, with a continuance of the business
meeting at the banquet?

(Recess taken until 1:00 o'clock p. m.)

+Monday Afternoon Session+

President Davidson: Shall we come to order?

We now come to the interesting part of our program, and we will listen
first to Mr. Quick of West Virginia, who will take the place of Mr.
Sayers, the State Forester at Charleston, West Virginia. Mr. Quick.

The Development and Propagation of Blight Resistant Chestnut in West
Virginia

RALPH H. QUICK, Conservation Commission, Charleston, West Virginia

Mr. Quick: Ladies and gentlemen of the Association, your guests and
friends: In substituting for the State Forester of West Virginia I
realize that I am undertaking a big job. A few of you know Mr. Wilson
Sayers, who is the State Forester, and those of you who do may assure
the rest of the group what a big job I am undertaking, because I feel
that I am in pretty good-sized shoes.

The subject that has been assigned is The Development and Propagation of
Blight Resistant Chestnut in West Virginia. Now, being a forester, I am
perhaps interested in blight resistant chestnut from a little different
standpoint than the majority of this group. As representing the
Conservation Commission of that state I might say that we are interested
primarily from the game-food viewpoint. Now, that's a little bit
different, I expect, than most of you have been thinking about, or some
of you, at least. But that is the standpoint from which we are
interested.

So I would like to go along with you this afternoon and discuss some of
the things that we have done and some of the things that we are
learning--there are a few yet--that lead us along that line to believe
that we can do something with blight-resistant chestnuts in West
Virginia as a game food. We are just at the beginning, so to speak--that
is, the Conservation Commission of that state is just at the beginning
of our study. We have been fooling with it a little off and on since
back in the middle '30's, but interest has lagged and then has picked up
again two or three times.

I am sure that as far as the production of good strains of
blight-resistant chestnut, better strains of Chinese, and so on, that
there are peo