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Title: The publications of the Pennsylvania chestnut tree blight commission, 1911-1913
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania. Chestnut tree blight commission
Subjects: Chestnut blight Chestnut blight
Publisher: Harrisburg : W. S. Ray, state printer
Contributing Library: Penn State University
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age which this one plant disease—chestnut blight—has done, would pay for the work of more plant pathologists than arenow at work in the entire world. The Commission closes its work with regret, knowing well that theblight will now spread over the State without hindrance. There issome satisfaction in knowing, however, that the work left undonein Pennsylvania has been actively taken up in Virginia and WestVirginia, and that the States of Ohio and North Carolina are makingstudies preparatory to combatting the disease as soon as it appearsin those States. The scientific research carried on by the Commis-sion will be continued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Wemay be certain that the war against this and other foreign epidemicswill not cease until science is so far advanced in both theory andpractice that they can be controlled. Very truly yours, WINTHROP SARGENT, Chairman. (14) Report ofHon. I. C. Williams Deputy Commissioner of Forestry, Collaborator (15) (16) l^t >\!^ ^W^
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A common mark of the blight. Small leaves which developed in the early springon a top recently girdled by the blight, showing midsummer condition. Witheredleaves above the canker; sprouts below. A HISTOEY OF THE EARLY PENNSYLVANIA EFFORT TO COMBAT THE CHESTNUT BARK DISEASE. BY HON. I. 0. WILLIAMS, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF FORESTRY,COLLABORATOR, HARRISBURG, PA. Preliminary to the final report of the Chestnut Blight Commis-sion, it is thought desirable to make a statement detailing the his-tory of the chestnut bark disease in Pennsylvania so far as known,and of the efforts to combat it, leading up to the formation of theCommission under the law of 1911, and the extended work of repres-sion begun at that time. The attention of the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry wasfirst attracted to the appearance of the chestnut bark disease in thisState by a letter from Mr. Harold Peirce, of Haverford, dated July18, 1908, reporting its presence in Lower Merion Township, Mont-gomery County, and by an

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