Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1910 — BEETLE KILLING ELM TREES [ARTICLE]

BEETLE KILLING ELM TREES

Expert Who Examined Roosevelt's Chestnuts Reports Other Ravages In Four States. New York.—A great plague of elm leaf beetles has swept over this section of the country this summer, aa cording to Director Murrill of tha Bronx botanical hardens. Mr. Murrill recently made a trip of investigation through four states and says that he found the condition of the elni trees alarming everywhere. The beetle, however, is not the only enemy to the trees which Is working Mr. Murrill was called to Sagamore Hill, where he made an examination of the chestnut trees, which are Colonel Roosevelt’s pride. When Colonel Roosevelt returned from Africa he sent word to the Bronx botanical gardens that something was wrong with his trees, and asked that an expert be sent to Inspect them. . -Mr. Murrill discovered that almost every tree on the colonel’s estate was dead. The canter, a rapid-growing fungus, had started beneath the bark of the trees, and after killing the trees had spread quickly all over them. It traveled with surprising swiftness, and within twd months caused thousands of dollarsfjworth of damage*