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forest resources. The State Entomologist of Tennessee, Mr. George 

 Bentley, has been approached regarding the advisability of establishing 

 a quarantine preventing chestnut nursery stock being shipped into 

 Tennessee from infected States, but as far as I know he has not taken 

 any definite action. Mr. Maddox, Forester of Tennessee, writes that 

 he is in favor of prevention of shipment of chestnut nursery stock 

 from infected regions into the State. Tennessee, we know, has the 

 power of establishing such a plant quarantine, as has North Carolina, 

 Georgia, and Alabama. Kentucky, however, does not have power of 

 quarantine, nor can it pass a law permitting the State Entomologist 

 to declare a quarantine on any nursery stock until the General Assembly 

 meets in 1920. Both Mr. H. Carman, State Entomologist, and Mr. 

 Barton, State Forester, are desirous of having the Federal Government 

 establish a quarantine to protect Kentucky from infected States. This 

 has already been taken up with proper authorities. 



California and Illinois have passed quarantine measures to prevent 

 the chestnut blight from invading the States and infecting the small 

 groves of planted chestnuts. 



I inspected the stock of a nursery at Beatrice, Nebr., and found the 

 "blight present.- They had purchased the stock from a Pennsylvania 

 nursery, and were acting as distributors to the whole country. The 

 blight was also found on one of their shipments of chestnut trees in 

 Lincoln, Nebr. Other nursery shipments of chestnut trees have been 

 found diseased in California, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, as 

 ■well as in the generally infected States from Virginia northward. 



One of the large distributors of nursery stock is located at Paines- 

 ville, Ohio. The blight has been present in this nursery since 1914, 

 jet the State does not prevent them from shipping chestnut trees to 

 points outside the State. While the nursery does attempt to control 

 the blight by frequent inspections and removal of visibly diseased trees, 

 yet they miss many small infections. The State Entomologist of In- 

 diana reported the blight on shipment of trees shipped from this 

 nursery in 1915. 



If foresters get back of a movement to have these Southern States, 

 North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee 

 protected by State quarantines, and Kentucky by a Federal quarantine, 

 the officials may act favorably and the blight will at least have been 

 prevented from making long jumps on nursery shipments. These 

 quarantines should be supplemented by adequate inspection of past 

 shipments. Roy G. Pierce. 



• Pierce, R. G. : Chestnut Blight in Nebraska. Phytopathology 5 : 74, Feb., 1915. 



