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where probable results might seem to warrant it, such as iso- 

 lated woods recently and slightly infected, and of sufficient 

 value to warrant the expense. Where a wood lot as a whole 

 is merchantable, and the disease is present, we advocate that, 

 if market conditions are favorable, it be cut and disposed of 

 in the ordinary way. Where the trees are not as a whole of 

 marketable size, and the disease is present, we advocate the 

 removal of the dead and badly diseased trees and their disposal 

 as lumber, poles, ties or cordwood, as their size will permit. 



We have no uniform recommendations for treatment of 

 sprout growth too small for market purposes, but as a usual 

 thing no treatment is recommended. Where trees have been 

 cut, and numerous sprouts are developing, it is perhaps advisable 

 at the end of the second or third year to go over these and cut 

 off all the diseased and weak ones, leaving only four to six 

 vigorous ones, to renew the stand if possible. 



We are trying to prevent a glut of the market by discouraging 

 wholesale cutting of the forests, especially where there is little 

 need of it. As yet there has been no general glut and drop of 

 prices except on cordwood in certain towns, and 7x9 ties, for 

 which the demand on the part of the railroad has evidently 

 fallen off. On the whole, however, there has been considerable 

 more timber cut than usual. 



There are no small factories for the utilization of waste pro- 

 ducts such as tannin, etc., and the establishment of such here is 

 not likely or advisable. In the recent investigations of the wood- 

 using industries of Connecticut, by Pierson of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, published as Bulletin 174 of this 

 Station, it is stated that the chestnut is used by nineteen different 

 industries in wood manufacture, of which 50 per cent, of the 

 supply used is for musical instruments. Of all the chestnut 

 timber used, however, only 35 per cent, was Connecticut-grown. 



Whether the consumption of the home-grown product can be 

 profitably increased is a question we cannot answer here, but 

 is worthy of the attention of the timber growers and buyers. 

 The largest use made of the chestnut trees is for building timber, 

 telephone poles, railroad ties, and cordwood. The latter, besides 

 its extensive family use, is consumed in brick kilns, brass 

 foundries and charcoal pits. Its consumption by brass factories, 

 however, is on the decrease, due to the substitution of crude 

 petroleum. 



