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unaffected by the frost, standing between the undersized frost- 

 bitten specimens. Undoubtedly a mixed lot of seed had been used 

 to produce the stock. 



The chestnut bark disease has become so serious that in the 

 opinion of the United States Department of Agriculture it is 

 desirable to quarantine New England, New York, New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, 

 Ohio, North Carolina, Iowa, and Nebraska, or such portions 

 thereof as may be found to be essential. A public hearing on 

 this question was held in Washington on May 18. The proposed 

 quarantine will restrict the movement from this territory of chest- 

 nut nursery stock and chestnut lumber with the bark on. 



At the present time the native chestnut grows in practically all 

 of the territory east of the Mississippi except a section of the 

 coastal plain of the Southern States, the northern half of Maine, 

 and parts of Illinois and Michigan. For two years after the 

 tree has been killed by the fungus the timber remains valuable, but 

 deterioration sets in after that time. 



The interesting statistics brought out in Mr. Graves' Report of 

 the Forester for 1914, may be briefly stated as follows: 



The National Forests were reduced in area by over one mil- 

 lion acres, leaving a net area of around 164 million acres. Land 

 classifications within the Forests and boundary re-adjustments, 

 as well as alienations to private ownership, are responsible for the 

 decrease. 



Administration and protection cost $4,750,000 and an additional 

 $620,000 was spent on improvements. The receipts amounted to 

 about 50 per cent of the expenditures, and nearly half of these 

 came from grazing and special sources, the 'other half from timber 

 sales. The timber sold amounted in the two years, 1913 and 1914, 

 to 3.6 billion feet, valued at around 8 million dollars, while the 

 quantity cut in the two years was little over 1 billion feet, valued 

 at 2.3 million dollars. From 30 to 40 per cent of the annual 

 cut supplies local demand, the result of 8,300 small sales in 1914, 

 an increase of 33 per cent over the preceding year with an in- 

 creased stumpage price, $2.32 per M feet B. M. In addition, from 

 30 to 40,000 permits for free use of wood are granted, represent- 

 ing some 120 million feet at a value of around 190 million dollars. 



