USING BLIGHTED CHESTNUT 



HOW chestnut timber that has years, while trees above 18 inches in di- 

 been killed by the bark disease ameter are merchantable six years after 

 can be utilized to bring the death. It is best, however, to cut and 

 most profit is told by the De- utilize infected trees as soon as possible 

 partment of Agriculture in a bulletin after they are attac k e d. Diseased tim- 

 just issued for the benefit of farmers ber ig stm Hye timber> and can be sold 

 and other timberland owners in the ^ ^^ d ^ ^^ eyen 

 States where the blight has appeared. , . ,., . 

 Most of the chestnut timber north of the though sound, always presents difficul- 

 Potomac River has been attacked and ties in felhn g> manufacturing, and mar- 

 much of it killed by the disease, which keting. 



is now spreading to Virginia and West I" deciding what product to manu- 



Virginia. facture from his stand the farmer, or 



Sound wood from dead chestnut other timberland owner, should first 



trees is fully as strong as wood from consider his own needs for fuel, fence 



healthy trees, and is suitable for poles, posts and rails, split shingles, construc- 



lumber, ties, slack cooperage, mine tim- tion material for barns and sheds, or 



bers, tannin extract wood, shingles, even interior finish for a new house. If 



fence posts and rails, piles, veneer, and a woodlot owner has more dead timber 



fuel. It can not be used profitably for than he can use himself or dispose of to 



tight cooperage, for wood distillation, his neighbors, he should consider mak- 



or for excelsior. ing one or more of the following prod- 



Disease-killed chestnut does not be- nets to be sold to dealers, railroads, or 



gin to deteriorate until two years after manufacturing plants: Poles, sawlogs, 



death, and in most cases it has been hewn ties, slack cooperage bolts, tannin 



found that trees up to 10 inches in di- extract cordwood, mine timbers, and 



ameter can be sawed into merchantable cordwood for brickyards, lime kilns, 



products after they have been dead four brass factories, iron foundries, etc. Any 



years, trees from 10 to 18 inches in di- of these products can be made with the 



ameter after they have been dead five tools kept on every farm. 



Planting Three Million. 



Nearly three million young trees are being set out this spring on the national forests of 

 northern Idaho and Montana. On the St. Joe National Forest in Idaho three thousand 

 acres will be planted. 



Students at the Forest Nursery. 



Students of the Oregon Agricultural College are working at the forest nursery on the 

 Siuslaw forest. The arrangement is said to be mutually satisfactory, since the students gain 

 experience in forest nursery practice and their assistance lowers the cost of nursery work. 



604 



