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probably be dependent upon foreign countries for 75 per cent of its 
vegetable tanning supplies. In France the growers of chestnut not 
only receive a material income from the nuts, but also sell the mature 
trees and the trees removed in thinning to the tanning-extract com- 
panies. Such a combination may in the future prove profitable in 
this country since the hairy Chinese chestnut, which is not so prolific 
in nut production as the European chestnut, has a higher tannin 
content. 
G. F. Gravatt. 
HESTNUT Blighted The chestnut blight has robbed north- 
Wood Good for eastern forests and wood lots of one of 
All Timber Uses our best all-around timber trees, and is 
sweeping relentlessly southward through 
all the Atlantic States. In a comparatively few years chestnut will 
be gone entirely from our eastern woodlands. What can the woods 
owner with chestnut trees a part of his timber crop do about it? 
Fic. 43.—Getting the good of a doomed species. This fence, constructed in part of 
blight-killed chestnut, has for 14 years given testimony to the soundness of this wood 
The living tree can not be saved, but the valuable wood can. The 
blight itsetf does not affect in any way the strength of chestnut 
wood. If the wood is harvested before fungi and worms attack the 
dead tree, the timber is as good for all purposes as any ever cut 
from a thrifty, unblighted chestnut. However, if this timber, living 
or dead, is to be saved, it must all be cut and used in the next 15 
ears. : 
‘i Even where the blight has not yet entered, the chestnut in farm 
woods and larger tracts should be disposed of at the first oppor- 
tunity, regardless of whether the trees are at full maturity. Where 
the blight has entered, some knowledge is needed of the uses to 
which the wood may be put, according to the degree that the wood 
has been attacked by wood-destroying organisms. These uses may 
be summarized as follows: ; 
Sound wood, trees two years dead or less.—Use for round products, 
as poles, piling, construction timbers, mine timbers, highway and 
