Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-28 | Page 5 | Chestnut Faces Extinction as an American Delicacy

i Chestnut Faces paces Extinction as an American Delicacy ITHACA N N. Y X Oct 28 Ap Ap- Ap The chestnut as an American delicacy delicacy delicacy deli deli- cacy is facing extinction Plant pathologists pathologists pa- pa and foresters z Cornell university say the reason is a serious serious seri serious seri seri- ous blight communicated from tree to tree ree by bv the wind a contamination contamina contamina- tion which has been unhampered during the last twenty years The disease disease which these s describe as incurable makes mak s the situation m more re serious The blight was first discovered re 1 In a Brooklyn park In 1904 but it was sl n fou not until t two years e ago that h It was discovered in other parts of the country