18 FARMERS’ BULLETIN 1641 
Most of the imported chestnuts so far tested have been suited for 
orchard or ornamental purposes rather than for timber production. 
R. K. Beattie, of the Department of Agriculture, has been in Asia 
for the past two years securing nuts from the most promising trees 
of the forest types. Many thousands of seedlings from these forest 
trees are now growing in nurseries in the United States. These 
Asiatic chestnuts have shown marked resistance to the blight under 
Ficure 15.—Two-year-old coppfce sprouts of hairy Chinese chestnut 
the climatic conditions of their native home, and it is to be expected 
that they will prove resistant in this country. They do not grow so 
tall or straight as the American chestnut grows, but it is hoped 
that in addition to providing a home supply of nuts for the farmer 
some strains will prove suitable for small telephone poles, fence 
posts, and extract wood. Many strains of them coppice readily, as 
shown in Figure 15. Preliminary analyses of the wood of these: 
Asiatic chestnuts indicate that it contains as much tannin as that 
of the American chestnut, if not more. 
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1930 
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