the .same man may take (lie ciilire ci-op next year. A\'lial (hat 

 Avill be 1 eaiiiiot .say. This year it wa.s between tliree and lonr 

 thon.sand bushels, includinj^ good and bad niit«. 



In this view typical burrs are shown, ^Notice liow tliin tlie 

 linsks are on many of (hem. 



Another burr. It does no( look as if i( conld rover tlie nnts. 

 In fact, it conld not now, becansetiie bnrr has shrnnken away 

 as it dried ont, leaving the nnts. Four, five and often seven 

 nn(s are found in a bnrr. 



This view sliows seven in a bnrr. Xo(ice (ha( (hey are 

 crowded in, whicli gives them irregular shapes. 



In this view the nuts in the lower row are covering sihcr half 

 dollars. The seven below measured over ten inches. Eight of 

 them measui'ed thirteen inches. 



In this view tlie nut in the lower right Jiand corner is covei-ing 

 a silver dollar; the other four covering silver half dollars. 

 Above, are typical burrs. 



Here are thirty-two selected nnts, measuring on<' (]uar(. 

 Another gronj) of llie burrs as lliey were taken from one (ree, a 

 little seedling three years old. 



Forest tires were started in the mountains above by hunlers, 

 carelessly or otherwise. They run down into the grove, so that 

 it is necessary to watch cautiously. Perhaps, however, the bnrn- 

 ing of the pai't above helped to destroy some of the weevils and 

 some of (he burr Avorms; but of course the danger is that it Avill 

 get into the grove, aud it did buru over nearly ten acres at one 

 time. This view shows a fire lane; the building of a fire lane, 

 be(ween a grove and (he woods a])0ve. It shows what the grove 

 wonld have been had it not been cultivated and jnit to this use. 

 That is the land immediately above it, full of chestnut timber. 



This shows another point, showing on one side where the tire 

 Jns( went thi-ough. It did not get into the grove. The trees are 

 dead, not from the blight in that case, but from the tire. It 

 shows on the other side chestnut grafted to Paragon, and the 

 four hundred acres is practically surrounded on three sides by 

 that same kind of timber. 



There are other eiuunies. Meadow mice girdle the young 

 sj^routs at times. The sprout shown in this view was girdled 



