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  corn, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  hard 
  for 
  me 
  to 
  believe 
  that 
  he 
  will 
  get 
  fat 
  on 
  acorns 
  

   and 
  chestnuts. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Lee 
  : 
  I 
  also 
  would 
  like 
  to 
  ask 
  whether 
  a 
  hog 
  will 
  get 
  fat 
  on 
  

   acorns. 
  I 
  had 
  an 
  experience 
  this 
  fall 
  ; 
  a 
  man 
  on 
  my 
  farm 
  had 
  some 
  

   pigs 
  and 
  he 
  kept 
  them 
  in 
  a 
  pen 
  and 
  fed 
  them 
  corn. 
  I 
  was 
  going 
  to 
  

   begin 
  to 
  feed 
  my 
  hogs, 
  but 
  I 
  had 
  a 
  woods 
  and 
  I 
  said 
  let 
  them 
  eat 
  

   the 
  acorns. 
  At 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  a 
  month 
  they 
  had 
  eaten 
  the 
  acorns 
  but 
  

   they 
  were 
  not 
  as 
  fat 
  as 
  they 
  had 
  been 
  at 
  the 
  beginning. 
  They 
  had 
  

   worked 
  so 
  hard 
  to 
  get 
  the 
  acorns 
  that 
  they 
  had 
  worked 
  off 
  all 
  the 
  fat. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Smith 
  : 
  There 
  are 
  two 
  hundred 
  thousand 
  hogs 
  on 
  the 
  

   job 
  in 
  the 
  federal 
  forests 
  today. 
  The 
  Portugese 
  pig 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  

   is 
  a 
  lamentable 
  looking 
  object. 
  The 
  method 
  is 
  to 
  keep 
  him 
  alive 
  

   until 
  acorns 
  get 
  ripe 
  and 
  they 
  count 
  on 
  a 
  pig 
  multiplying 
  himself 
  

   one 
  hundred 
  to 
  two 
  hundred 
  per 
  cent 
  in 
  the 
  short 
  season 
  from 
  the 
  

   beginning 
  of 
  September 
  to 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  the 
  year. 
  They 
  keep 
  him 
  

   ordinarily 
  eighteen 
  months; 
  they 
  carry 
  the 
  spring 
  or 
  fall 
  pigs 
  

   through 
  one 
  winter, 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  the 
  fattening 
  season 
  

   a 
  pig 
  that 
  weighs 
  fifty 
  or 
  sixty 
  pounds 
  is 
  counted 
  on, 
  in 
  the 
  short 
  

   time 
  when 
  acorns 
  can 
  be 
  picked 
  up, 
  to 
  jump 
  up 
  to 
  one 
  hundred 
  and 
  

   fifty 
  or 
  two 
  hundred 
  pounds. 
  There 
  is 
  much 
  evidence 
  on 
  both 
  sides 
  

   of 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  to 
  the 
  effect 
  that 
  acorns 
  fatten 
  hogs 
  if 
  the 
  supply 
  is 
  

   good. 
  

  

  PRESENT 
  STATE 
  OF 
  THE 
  CHESTNUT 
  BLIGHT 
  

   J. 
  Franklin 
  Collin 
  s^, 
  Washington^ 
  D. 
  C. 
  

  

  I 
  presume 
  that 
  all 
  of 
  you 
  who 
  have 
  any 
  interest 
  at 
  all 
  in 
  the 
  chest- 
  

   nut 
  know 
  considerable 
  about 
  the 
  blight 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  killing 
  these 
  

   trees 
  in 
  the 
  northeastern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  country, 
  so 
  I 
  will 
  say 
  nothing 
  

   whatever 
  about 
  the 
  general 
  features 
  of 
  the 
  disease 
  but 
  confine 
  my 
  

   talk 
  to 
  those 
  points 
  which 
  have 
  assumed, 
  within 
  a 
  year, 
  some 
  special 
  

   importance 
  from 
  the 
  point 
  of 
  view 
  of 
  fighting 
  the 
  blight, 
  or 
  related 
  

   topics. 
  

  

  Perhaps 
  the 
  first 
  thing 
  that 
  I 
  can 
  allude 
  to 
  is 
  the 
  discovery 
  of 
  a 
  

   certain 
  disease 
  in 
  China 
  which, 
  at 
  the 
  time, 
  was 
  supposed 
  to 
  be 
  

   identical 
  with 
  the 
  chestnut 
  disease 
  in 
  the 
  northeastern 
  part 
  of 
  this 
  

   country. 
  I 
  say 
  "supposed" 
  because 
  we 
  had 
  no 
  positive 
  knowledge 
  

   at 
  the 
  time 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  the 
  disease. 
  Specimens 
  were 
  sent 
  to 
  this 
  

   country 
  by 
  the 
  agricultural 
  expert, 
  ]Mr. 
  Meyer 
  of 
  the 
  Department 
  

   of 
  Agriculture, 
  for 
  examination. 
  Cultures 
  and 
  inoculations 
  were 
  

   made 
  by 
  the 
  pathologists 
  in 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Plant 
  Industry 
  and 
  all 
  

   of 
  the 
  tests 
  that 
  could 
  be 
  applied 
  showed 
  it 
  to 
  be 
  identical 
  with 
  our 
  

   American 
  disease. 
  

  

  