we possibly can with our nuts, because just the
minute the carloads of chestnuts come in on the East Coast the market
drops right down.

Without question we could use some of the preparations that we use on
filberts to put a gloss on the chestnut, run them through, I think it is
a paraffin mixture, put a gloss on the shell and give us a better
chestnut in the market, make it look nicer and, of course, make it sell
better.

+"Stick-tight" Burs Preferred for Pacific Coast+

I disagree, I think, with two of the former speakers in regard to the
chestnut that falls free from the bur. I would prefer a chestnut that
sticks tight to the bur. We have threshers out there that thresh them
out. We can pick up those nuts in the bur with a shovel or fork, throw
them into the wagon, take them in the wagon, thresh them out. You have a
cleaner nut, you don't have to pick around on the ground with rubber
gloves that we use, which is easy enough, but it certainly adds a great
deal of work as compared to threshing them out easily after they are
once picked up.

I thank you.

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President Davidson: Thank you, Mr. Bush. We are glad to have that
western angle. It is going to be very useful to us.

Next on the program is a paper on the Control of the Chestnut Weevil,
the author of which is absent, but I believe Mr. Gravatt is going to
read that.

Chestnut Weevils and Their Control with DDT

E. R. VAN LEEUWEN

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research
Administration, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Division of
Fruit Insect Investigations.

Failure of the American chestnut to resist the chestnut blight has
resulted in the planting of a few blight-resistant species obtained from
foreign lands. These foreign chestnuts would now be planted more
extensively in certain districts, were it not for the fact that the nuts
are injured by two species of weevils, for which heretofore there has
been no practical control.

The 1947 season marks the fourth year of the experimental use of DDT for
control of the chestnut weevils. During these years our knowledge of the
spray and how best to use it has been advanced by conducting laboratory
and field tests. Unfortunately, few chestnut orchards now exist in the
Eastern States, and the scattered plantings consist mostly of a large
number of Asiatic seedlings, some of which had to be top-worked to other
Asiatic species