Imported to America to Benefit the Tanning Industry Washington, Apr. 18 ith a view to relieving the tanning industry from the blow suffered as a result of the blight that has swept over the domestic chestnut trees, the Departmen: of Agriculture is experimenting with Chinese chestnut trees which, it is hoped, will be found blight proof.
Seeds of two kinds of Chinese jestnut trees have been imported, one of the wild chestnut in southern China, and the other of the hairy chestnut in northern China. The southern China plants will be distributed through the south, and the cher kind through the colder regions of the country. working rd, at times as The American blight has been
rapidly og 25 mille & year, cleaning York, apparently coming in from th Orient and crossed Virginia at the rate of 20 miles annually. It has now almost covered the chestnut aren of the country, being south as northern Georgi Tennessee and eastern Kentucky.
Chestnut bark is used in the tanning industry, and with the ravages of the blight and the consequent}
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