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Experimental Farm Plantings of Asiatic Chestnuts

Foresters and farmers often ask the following questions about Asiatic chestnuts: Can they produce nuts and timber? Are they resistant to the blight? Where and under what conditions do they thrive? In the spring of 1939, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, through its Soil Con-servation Service and Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, furnished 132 Pennsylvania and West Virginia farmers about 3,000 one- and two-year-old Asiatic chestnut trees of Chinese, Japanese, and mixed parentage.


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Author(s): Jesse D. Diller

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 40 (1960)