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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. 
Weare 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. 
