The chestnut blight disease [microform] : means of identification, remedies suggested and need of co-operation to control and eradicate the blight . »osilious on the nee where new iufec-tions are started. Infection appears to lake place only ihrougli a wound iu iliebark. The Iuugus feeds on Ihe inner aud middle bark aud usuallyipiickly girdles the truuk or branch on which it grows. A caukorIhree im-hes iu diauuler has been observed to develop in live trees may die in a single season, and large ones are killed infrom two to f<mr seasons after the blight attacks thoui. In the mean
The chestnut blight disease [microform] : means of identification, remedies suggested and need of co-operation to control and eradicate the blight . »osilious on the nee where new iufec-tions are started. Infection appears to lake place only ihrougli a wound iu iliebark. The Iuugus feeds on Ihe inner aud middle bark aud usuallyipiickly girdles the truuk or branch on which it grows. A caukorIhree im-hes iu diauuler has been observed to develop in live trees may die in a single season, and large ones are killed infrom two to f<mr seasons after the blight attacks thoui. In the mean-iime, half, or ])erhaps nt^irly all, the nearby chestnut trees may beexpected to show the disease at some siate of d(n-elopuumt. Diseased logs, cord wood. l)ark, etc., hauled along ])ublic on railroads, may carry the spores to new localities. Shipmentand ]tlantiug of diseased chestnut nursery stock is another way in.
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