Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1910 — Chestnut Blight In Pennsylvania. [ARTICLE]

Chestnut Blight In Pennsylvania.

Hundreds of giant trees have been obliged to bow to the woodman’s axe and herqic treatment has been applied to thousands of others in the effort to stay the sway of the death-dealing disease familiarly known as the chestnut blight in the campaign inaugurated three weeks ago by a corps of the state forestry department, says the Philadelphia Record. In this brief period, and in the attempt to check the ravages of the disease that in epidemic form threatened to wipe out the vast chestnut groves of eastern Pennsylvania, and particularly in the suburban section of Philadelphia, 10,000 trees have been examined in the neighborhood of Ardmore, liaverford and Bryn Mawr. The alarming extent to which this blight had invaded this section is shown in the reports of these forestry experts, for examinations in minute detail reveal the fact that no less than 50 per cent of the trees in these great groves are infected. In some forests as high as 90 per cent has been noted.