. Chestnut blight. Chestnut blight; Chestnut. CHESTNUT BLIGHTED WOOD GOOD FOR ALL TIMBER USES 211 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. Gkavatt. CHES
. Chestnut blight. Chestnut blight; Chestnut. CHESTNUT BLIGHTED WOOD GOOD FOR ALL TIMBER USES 211 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. Gkavatt. CHESTNUT 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?. Fig. 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 itself 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, hvmg or dead, is to be saved, it must all be cut and used in the next 15 years. Even where the blight has not yet entered, the chestnut m 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 woo
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