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most part, though easily recognizable by one who is instructed. 

 There has yet been found no practicable means to control it. 



Owners of chestnut trees in New Jersey, who deem therm valu- 

 able enough to warrant some expense in an effort to prolong 

 their lives, may resort to pruning. Nothing else will avail, and 

 specific directions will be sent upon request. In all other cases, 

 and this applies to practically every body of forest, it will be 

 wisest to let the trees go, remove them as they die and fill their 

 places by planting other species. There is not the slightest use 

 anticipating the actual death o>f a tree, though when dea'ci It 

 should be promptly removed lest it provide breeding places for 

 'harmful insects or lodgment for the germs of other diseases. 

 The possibility of a new pest following the wake of the chest- 

 nut blight is by no means remote. The disease is not known to 

 attack any other species than chestnut. 



Chestnut wood from trees killed by the blight is as sound and 

 as good for ordinary purposes as chestnut wood from trees that 

 have been felled while in health. It is important, however, to see 

 that no unbarked wood of any kind is transported into territory 

 unaffected with the blight. If logs, lumber or cordwood there- 

 fore are to be sent out of the State, or into the southern counties, 

 they should be completely barked. This measure is advisable in 

 the section south of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad as the 

 disease is not yet fully established there. In this territory aiso 

 the prompt treatment of trees that may be attacked is recom- 

 mended. The affected tree or branch should be promptly cut 

 and the wound treated as indicated in the special circular above 

 referred to. This may check the progress of the disease, though 

 no assurance can be given that the measure will be permanently 

 effective. 



ELM LEAF BEETLE. 



It is unfortunate that so many fine elm trees have been sacri- 

 ficed to this beetle when a little care would have prevented it all. 

 All the prophecies made a year ago with respect to the ravages 

 of this insect have been fully justified. It has come in hordes and 

 left behind a trail of dead elm trees which generations will not 



