It has been the policy of the Commission for sometime to protect
orchards and nurseries from outside infection in all cases where the
owners have expressed a desire for such protection, and have themselves
taken care to control the disease as much as possible. This work has
been successful much beyond our expectations. The largest and most
important orchards thus protected are located at Sunbury, Paxinos, and
Berwick. The owners of neighboring forest tracts have been required to
remove all diseased chestnut trees within one-half mile of the nearest
point of the orchard in each case. An interesting result in one of
the most important of these cases is the fact that these owners have
been able to sell the products of their diseased trees for an amount
considerably above the entire cost of removal, sanitation work, etc.