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of no use in stopping the fungus after it has once started growth:in 
the bark. 
(10) It 1s recommended that owners of infected woodland cut 
down and utilize the diseased chestnut timber as soon as possible. 
(11) For the present the planting of chestnuts anywhere east of 
Ohio is not advised, but there is no apparent reason why chestnut 
orchards west of Ohio‘may not be kept free from the disease. 
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