Final Report of the Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission

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Author

Pennsylvania. Chestnut Tree Blight Commission

Title

Final report of the Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission

Original Publication

Harrisburg: Wm. Stanley Ray, 1914.

Credits

The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

SB: Agriculture: Plant culture

Subject

Chestnut blight

Category

Text

eBook-No.

79481

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79481

Release Date

August 31, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FINAL REPORT OF THE Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.PROGRESS OF FIELD WORK. — EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CUTTING OUT METHOD. — BENEFICIAL INSECTS. — NURSERY INSPECTION. — DISCOVERY OF THE CHESTNUT BLIGHT IN CHINA. — PROTECTION OF ORCHARDS AND NURSERIES. — PREVENTION OR REMEDY. — CONTROL OF THE DISEASE IN ORCHARDS. — FAKE TREATMENTS, THEORIES OR CAUSES, ETC. — EXAMINATIONS OF INDIVIDUAL TREES. — PUBLIC PARKS AND FARMS. — BLIGHT-EATING BEETLES. — CORDWOOD AND THE SPECIAL TARIFF. — PROMPTNESS IN UTILIZING CHESTNUT. — INTENSIVE LOCAL UTILIZATION. — RESISTANCE AND IMMUNITY. — CHESTNUT BLIGHT EXHIBITS. — PUBLICATIONS. — CO-OPERATION. — MUCH IMPORTANT WORK UNFINISHED. — FIELD OPERATIONS. — REDUCTION OF FORCE. — BETTER WORK IN WINTER. — FIELD WORK IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT. — A HARMLESS SAPROPHYTE. — FIELD WORK IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT. — SUGGESTIONS FOR TIMBER OWNERS. — LOCAL INTENSIVE FIELD WORK. — DISEASE INVESTIGATIONS AND NURSERY INSPECTION. — GERMINATION OF SPORES. — PRODUCTION OF PYCNOSPORES IN WINTER. — BIRDS DISSEMINATE THE FUNGUS. — “SHOOTING” OF ASCOSPORES. — EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE. — RESISTANCE OF PYCNOSPORES. — EFFECT OF DRYING ON ASCOSPORES. — ENTRANCE OF BLIGHT IN GALLS. — INSECTS AS CARRIERS OF THE DISEASE. — OTHER DISEASES OF THE CHESTNUT. — FIELD INVESTIGATIONS. — NURSERY INSPECTION.
7. 7.INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. — INSECTS CAUSING DIRECT INFECTION. — INSECTS CARRYING SPORES BUT CAUSING NO DIRECT INFECTION. — INSECTS MAKING WOUNDS IN TREES THUS OPENING THE WAY FOR INFECTION. — CICADA STINGS. — THE BAST MINER. — LARVAL EXIT HOLES AS POINTS OF INFECTION. — CROTCH INFECTIONS. — EXPERIMENTS WITH ANTS. — INFECTION IN GALLS.
8. 8.CHEMICAL INVESTIGATIONS. — EXCESS OF TANNIN IN DISEASED WOOD. — LOSS OF VOLATILE MATTER. — CELLULOSE DETERMINATIONS. — CHEMICAL CHANGES. — NEW INJECTION MATERIAL FOR TREE MEDICATION.
9. 9.TREE MEDICATION. — PLOTS UNDER EXPERIMENT. — OBSERVATIONS OF THE WORK OF 1912. — FAVORABLE EFFECTS OF ALKALIES. — INJECTIONS IN 1913. — EFFECTS OF THIS YEAR’S INJECTIONS.
10. 10.TREE SURGERY. — INDIVIDUAL TREE EXAMINATIONS. — ADVICE IN FOREST MANAGEMENT. — CONTACT WITH THE PEOPLE. — EXPERIMENTS. — EXPERIMENTS WITH LIME-SULPHUR. — ALLEGED CURES FOR THE BLIGHT. — LOCATION OF CANKERS. — VALUE OF TREE SURGERY WORK. — OTHER TREE SURGERY WORK.
11. 11.GEOGRAPHIC WORK. — WEATHER CONDITIONS. — RELATION OF SOILS TO BLIGHT OCCURRENCE. — LOCATION OF OBSERVATIONS. — RESULTS OF OBSERVATIONS. — RELATION OF ALTITUDE TO BLIGHT DISTRIBUTION. — UTILIZATION. — PRELIMINARY WORK. — CONCLUSIONS OF UTILIZATION CONFERENCE AT TRENTON. — LOCAL INTENSIVE UTILIZATION. — RESULTS OF THE LOCAL WORK. — DIFFICULTY OF OBTAINING LABOR. — WORK IN OTHER LOCALITIES. — DETERIORATION EXPERIMENTS. — CHESTNUT EXTRACT CHIPS FOR PAPER PULP. — TESTS IN CO-OPERATION WITH MANUFACTURERS. — BLIGHTED WOOD NOT INJURED. — KINDLING AND FUEL TESTS. — MOVEMENT OF CORDWOOD. — CO-OPERATION WITH THE U. S. FOREST SERVICE.
12. 12.DEMONSTRATION WORK. — LECTURES. — CHESTNUT BLIGHT EXHIBITS. — DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIMENS. — FIELD DEMONSTRATION.
13. 13.CO-OPERATION OF THE PRESS.
14. 14.OBSERVATIONS ON SANITATION CUTTING IN CONTROLLING THE CHESTNUT BLIGHT IN PENNSYLVANIA. — INTRODUCTION. — HOW THE BLIGHT SPREADS. — STUDY OF BLIGHT CONDITIONS IN THE MAHONING VALLEY. — INFECTION POINTERS. — STUDY OF BLIGHT CONDITIONS ON TOPTON MOUNTAIN, BERKS COUNTY. — RESULT OF OBSERVATIONS. — RATE OF INCREASE OF BLIGHT IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. — INFECTION CENTERS ON THE ADVANCE LINE. — PROCEDURE IN ERADICATING SPOT INFECTIONS. — SCOUTING. — METHOD OF ERADICATING A SPOT INFECTION. — COST OF ERADICATION. — EFFICIENCY OF THE CUTTING-OUT METHOD OF CONTROL. — NOTES OF RE-INSPECTION. — RECOMMENDATIONS. — REGULATING SHIPMENTS OF CHESTNUT NURSERY STOCK. — THE AMENDED CHESTNUT TREE BARK DISEASE ACT.
15. 15.A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE CHESTNUT BARK DISEASE.⁠ [22]
16. 16.Untitled

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