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Damping-off is the commonest English name for a symptomatic group of diseases affecting great numbers of plant species of widely separated phylogenetic groups. It is commonly used for any disease which results in the rapid decay of young succulent seedlings or soft cuttings. Young shoots from underground rootstocks may also be damped-off before they break through the soil.

Whereas it has been reported that the forest resources of the United States are being rapidly depleted, and that the siutaiton is already serious and will soon become critical; and whereas these alleged facts are either largely unknown to the public or are in dispute; therefore be it resolved, that the Secretary of Agriculture be, and he is hereby, directed to report to the Senate on or before June 1, 1920, on the following matters, using what information the Forest Service now has available, or what may be obtained readily with its existing organization: 1. The facts as to the depletion...