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mAY/June 2012 - The American Chestnut Foundation

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HISTORY<br />

<strong>The</strong>se four pages from Champion’s 1937 brochure show steps in the manufacturing process: harvesting the chestnut,<br />

transporting it, rendering it into extract and packing the extract for world markets. On an average day the plant would convert<br />

30 train carloads of chestnut logs into 250 barrels of chestnut extract.<br />

16 <strong>The</strong> Journal Of <strong>The</strong> <strong>American</strong> <strong>Chestnut</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong> | MAY/JUNE <strong>2012</strong>

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