Excerpt from The Control of the Chestnut Bark Disease Sir: I have the hor to transmit herewith and to recommend for publication as a Farmer's Bulletin a manuscript entitled The Control of the Chestnut Bark Disease, by Dr. Haven Metcalf, Pathologist in Charge, and Prof. J. Franklin Collins, Forest Pathologist, of the Office of Investigations in Forest Pathology. The writers describe their method of restricting the spread of this dangerous disease by destroying advance infections, a method which is already being applied on a large scale by the State of Pennsylvania. It is hoped to perfect plans whereby through general cooperation the disease may be kept within the territory where infection is already general and the largest and best chestnut forests of the country, especially those of the south Appalachians, be kept permanently free from the disease. The experimental data upon which the recommendations contained in this publication are based will be published in full in a forthcoming bulletin of the Bureau of Plant Industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.