located within fifty miles of Columbus, but later it was
permitted to extend the distance to 100 miles. They settled on Wooster,
which is 90 miles.

The tendency is to work more and more closely with the State University.
The trend seems to be so they will function as one agricultural
institution.

I would like to extend the keys of the Station to you, but the keys may
not unlock the fruit storage.

I trust you will have a most profitable time while you are with us.

Response

By John E. Cannaday, M. D., Charleston, West Virginia

It is a pleasure to meet here under such favorable auspices and to be
received with these hospitable words by Dr. Gourley. In recent years,
Ohio has gone far in nut growing under his leadership and that of his
staff. Pennsylvania also has done a great deal to put nut growing on its
feet. My own state, West Virginia, is also making good headway.

In the early 1900's I got the 'bee', but I lost two or three of my first
few trees. In 1917 I imported some chestnuts from Japan for planting and
tried out various schemes in nut growing. In my opinion, chestnuts are
the most important nuts for human food that grow in the temperate zone.
It is interesting to observe how chestnuts follow true to seed in many
respects. I have been advised that all of the chestnuts grown in China
are from selected seed.

Every foot of steep mountain land in some sections of Italy is said to
be completely covered with chestnut trees. In my state, the weevil is
the scourge of chestnuts; I had hoped that after the chestnut blight
destroyed our native chestnuts, the Chinese and Japanese chestnuts would
be free from that pest. Where it came from I do not know, unless it came
from the chinkapin. West Virginia has chinkapins and these, being blight
resistant, apparently have kept up the supply of weevils. Occasionally,
shortly before the chestnuts begin to ripen, a few decay from some type
of rot.

I took a census of my chestnut trees recently and found 80 trees of
bearing age. Some of the largest are 22 to 24 feet in height, with a
trunk diameter of 5 inches or more. None have been pruned but have
maintained their normal branch formation and grow low. The timber tree
must be yet to come. I have read interesting statements to the effect
that in parts of China and Burma, there are chestnut trees of timber
shape and size. Chestnut trees are likely to become of extreme
importance in our future economy. The nuts f