The subjects of lectures include every matter of interest concerning
the chestnut blight. At intervals, parties engaged in other lines of
operation of the Commission have lectured on topics relating to the
particular work they were doing. The most of the lectures were given
under the supervision of the State Farmers’ Institute management. The
lecturers were as a rule, supervisors of the territory in which the
lecture was given, and were, therefore, fully able to give the audience
news of the latest local developments, and much valuable information.
Besides farmers’ institute lectures, addresses were made at several
normal schools, before county fruit growers’ associations, at the
meeting of the Northern Nut Growers’ Association, and also at various
meetings of botanical societies, civic clubs, and in colleges and
schools.