ilize during the winter--usually during December."

Crane: "Last year we used a method of storing Chinese chestnuts which
proved very satisfactory. Two thousand pounds of nuts were stored last
year. Fall planting is good where one can use it but in a lot of areas
it can not be used because of rats robbing the plantings. We have to
store the nuts. The procedure we follow is to harvest every other day.
Nuts are placed in tin cans with friction top lids. The lids should have
one to three holes of 1/16" diameter in them to provide air. Cans are
placed in storage at a temperature of 32 to 40 degrees F."

Stoke: "I keep chestnuts in the cellar in a can with an open top in what
we call limestone sand. Keep wonderfully well. Chestnuts must have air."

Gravatt: "Down south we have a lot of trouble with decay. We take nuts
right from the bur and put them in the soil. They give much better
germination."

Crane: "The Chinese harvest their chestnuts just as soon as the bur
cracks. They do not wait for the nuts to drop from the trees but harvest
the nuts from the trees and store in covered pottery jars. They plant in
the fall of the year. They do not hold nuts for any length of time."

Corsan: "How about charcoal?"

G. Smith: "Charcoal is good to store nuts in. They are shipped from
China that way."

Smith: "Would chestnuts stand carbon bisulphide for getting the weevil
out, or is the hot water treatment better?"

Crane: "Carbon bisulphide treatment is dangerous, it will kill weevils
but it will also kill the nuts so they will not germinate. Unless
precautions are used it may cause an explosion and fire. Methyl bromide
treatment is better."

Stoke: "The hot water treatment is the best. It consists of immersing
the nuts in water at 120 degrees F. for forty minutes."

Hemming: "I have raised about 100,000 seedlings and have never seen
blight on any of my seedlings."

Dr. Smith: "A tree needs usually to be as big as the small end of a
baseball bat before the bark opens enough to let in the blight spores."

Stoke: "Blight begins where there is rough bark which provides lodgment
for the spores. Rough bark and moisture result in blight, hence the
disease usually starts near the ground."

Crane: "The blight problem in the growing of chestnuts has often been
stressed. I think you will have more loss from sunscald and root rot
than you will from blight. Blight is a minor trouble with us. The
Chinese chestnut naturally grows wit