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and keeping live stock from going from
an infested filed to one not infested
It has been demonstrated by the Dept. of
Agriculture that some varieties of water
mellon resist the disease.

2nd Reader, Florence Bentley read "Immune
Chestnust." Since the Blight has downed
our Chestnuts trees, the Dep. of Ag. has
attacked the problem of replacing the
immense amount of chestnut timber and
nuts that the country is destined to lose.
The office of Forestry has experimented
with the Asiatic spread of Chestnuts in order
to find a variety that most effectively
resist the blight. Hybrid of the
Japan chestnuts and our low bush chinquapin
have been raised successfully in
considerable dwarf trees which as an
early age bear profuse crops of nuts
that are excellent in quality and are
fiver or six times as large as those of
the wild chinquapin and ripen weeks
before any other chestnuts. Another
strain comes from crossing the disease resisting
varieties of China with those of
Japan. As some of the Chinese trees grow
tall, there seems to be a chance of our
having timber to repace what we are
losing.

Poultry
There have been many losses
in young chickens and turkies. Of 52
turkies as Falling Green but eight remain