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that were imported. He had some ten thousand, I think, 

 and I had a thousand or two which I set out, but the ex- 

 periment was an absolutely total failure. They failed to grow 

 in Mr. Hoyt's nursery rows just as they did in my fields, so 

 that my experience has shown that it is not altogether lovely 

 importing these seedlings. The trouble is, they sometimes 

 come in bad shape. I presume that was the case in this in- 

 stance. That is one of the disappointments that I have met 

 with in my efforts in forest planting. 



Mr. HOYT. I think that difficulty comes from bad pack- 

 ing; if they are put up properly they will come in good order; 

 but it is a fact that thousands of them are destroyed by bad 

 packing. 



A MEMBER. What is the proper season for transplanting 

 white pine? 



Mr. HOYT, The spring of the year. 



The PRESIDENT. It seems to me that this discussion is 

 not only interesting, but intensely instructive. There are 

 some classes of wood of which even now the supply is unequal 

 to the demand. The railroad men are very anxious to get all 

 the railroad ties they can all over the country, and their! steam 

 saw mills are being moved into every piece of chestnut itimber 

 that is left. There is one thing I want to add right on that 

 point. These chestnut stumps that are left and the sprouts 

 that grow up from them, are they good for anything? 



Mr. HOYT. All the chestnut that we have got now were 

 started in that way. 



The PRESIDENT. I have noticed that while a good many 

 of them looked well on the outside they are defective.; They 

 will grow quickly. They will bear chestnuts in a few years. 

 I have got quite a large field of just that kind of trees now, 

 but I have discovered that wherever I cut one I am apt 'to 

 find it is defective; there is sometimes a hole in it as big as a 

 man's arm. To look at them from the outside they are all 

 right. 



