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Show Testing Chestnuts for Resistance to Blight Many persons can say that they have gathered chestnuts, but not many Americana can say they searched for them in the forests of Korea and Japan ns can It. Kent lieattie, a forest pathologist of the I'epartini nt of Agriculture wdio has just relurind to this country from i two and a half years journey for that purpose. Ilonltie was hunting for blight-resistant chestnuts to plant in American Ameri-can forests anil during his sojourn in Hie Far East he collected about 250 Imshels of nuts of native strains, and scions of about 00 cultivated varieties. varie-ties. Ho shipped these nuts to Washington Wash-ington and the Department of Agriculture Agri-culture planted them In its forest nursery at Glemlale, Md., to test their resistance to blight and their adaptation to the climate and soil of a new homeland. |