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  Mr. 
  Littlepage: 
  It 
  is, 
  perhaps, 
  — 
  judging 
  from 
  looking 
  at 
  it 
  — 
  a 
  very 
  

   fine 
  shagbark 
  for 
  commercial 
  purposes. 
  Isn't 
  it 
  true 
  that 
  within 
  the 
  

   next 
  ten 
  years 
  there 
  will, 
  in 
  all 
  probability, 
  be 
  a 
  complete 
  reversion 
  in 
  

   the 
  mind 
  of 
  the 
  nut 
  culturist 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  kind 
  and 
  quality 
  of 
  the 
  nut 
  he 
  

   will 
  propagate. 
  I 
  will 
  supplement 
  that 
  by 
  saying 
  that 
  heretofore, 
  both 
  

   in 
  the 
  pecan 
  and 
  other 
  nut 
  fields, 
  the 
  whole 
  tendency 
  has 
  been 
  toward 
  

   something 
  big. 
  Now, 
  the 
  wise 
  fellows 
  in 
  the 
  South 
  today 
  are 
  beginning 
  

   to 
  get 
  away 
  from 
  that. 
  I 
  have 
  made 
  many 
  trips 
  down 
  there, 
  and 
  I 
  

   find 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  changing 
  sentiment. 
  I 
  want 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  in 
  my 
  ob- 
  

   servation 
  the 
  future 
  price 
  of 
  the 
  various 
  nuts 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  is 
  going 
  

   to 
  be 
  determined 
  by 
  the 
  price 
  of 
  nut 
  meat 
  ; 
  that 
  the 
  meats 
  are 
  going 
  to 
  

   be 
  put 
  on 
  the 
  market, 
  and 
  while 
  there 
  will 
  always 
  be 
  plenty 
  of 
  nuts 
  

   marketed 
  in 
  the 
  shell, 
  the 
  price 
  of 
  the 
  nut 
  meat 
  will 
  be 
  the 
  dominant 
  

   factor. 
  I 
  was 
  walking 
  down 
  G 
  Street 
  in 
  Washington 
  the 
  other 
  day 
  with 
  

   an 
  ex-United 
  States 
  Senator, 
  and 
  ex-member 
  of 
  Congress, 
  and 
  an 
  ex- 
  

   Governor, 
  and 
  they 
  passed 
  a 
  nut 
  store, 
  and 
  saw 
  in 
  the 
  window 
  some 
  

   nuts, 
  also 
  a 
  big 
  box 
  of 
  nut 
  meats. 
  Everyone 
  went 
  in, 
  and 
  all 
  passed 
  

   up 
  the 
  nuts 
  and 
  bought 
  the 
  nut 
  meat. 
  That 
  expresses, 
  to 
  mj^ 
  notion, 
  

   the 
  tendency 
  that 
  is 
  coming; 
  and 
  that 
  thing 
  is 
  going, 
  then, 
  to 
  determine 
  

   very 
  largely 
  the 
  question 
  of 
  quality. 
  

  

  President 
  Morris: 
  I 
  think 
  we 
  certainly 
  are 
  going 
  to 
  have 
  a. 
  com- 
  

   plete 
  change 
  in 
  ideas 
  about 
  raising 
  nuts. 
  We 
  are 
  going 
  to 
  raise 
  big 
  

   ones 
  of 
  the 
  kinds 
  where 
  everybody 
  will 
  buy 
  one 
  pound 
  and 
  nobody 
  will 
  

   buy 
  two 
  pounds. 
  We 
  are 
  going 
  to 
  raise 
  nuts 
  that 
  will 
  appeal 
  to 
  the 
  

   people 
  who 
  purchase 
  things 
  in 
  the 
  open 
  market, 
  and 
  who 
  never 
  in 
  their 
  

   lives 
  get 
  hold 
  of 
  anything 
  that 
  is 
  good. 
  W^e 
  are 
  going 
  also 
  to 
  raise 
  nuts 
  

   that 
  will 
  appeal 
  to 
  connoisseurs, 
  and 
  that 
  will 
  be 
  bought 
  by 
  people 
  who 
  

   know 
  one 
  work 
  of 
  art 
  from 
  another. 
  In 
  other 
  words, 
  we 
  are 
  going 
  to 
  

   make 
  the 
  progress 
  in 
  nut 
  culture 
  that 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  in 
  other 
  fields 
  of 
  

   horticulture. 
  At 
  the 
  present 
  time, 
  if 
  one 
  could 
  raise 
  a 
  pear 
  as 
  big 
  as 
  a 
  

   watermelon 
  and 
  tasting 
  like 
  the 
  rind, 
  that 
  would 
  be 
  the 
  pear 
  that 
  would 
  

   sell 
  in 
  the 
  market. 
  But 
  the 
  connoisseur 
  buys 
  the 
  Seckel 
  in 
  place 
  of 
  it. 
  

   When 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  pear 
  like 
  the 
  Kieffer 
  that 
  will 
  fill 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  tree 
  so 
  

   there 
  is 
  no 
  room 
  for 
  leaves 
  and 
  branches, 
  the 
  market 
  men 
  are 
  going 
  to 
  

   raise 
  that 
  pear. 
  But 
  when 
  we 
  go 
  into 
  the 
  market, 
  we 
  go 
  around 
  a 
  block 
  

   to 
  escape 
  the 
  place 
  where 
  they 
  sell 
  the 
  Kieffer 
  pear, 
  and 
  we 
  buy 
  the 
  

   Bartlett. 
  We 
  have 
  precisely 
  the 
  same 
  problems 
  in 
  nut 
  culture. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Pomeroy 
  : 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  thinking 
  some 
  on 
  this 
  line. 
  I 
  have 
  

   spent 
  a 
  good 
  many 
  half 
  hours 
  in 
  the 
  last 
  four 
  or 
  five 
  years 
  with 
  an 
  old 
  

   German 
  in 
  Buffalo. 
  He 
  has 
  a 
  stand 
  on 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  big 
  markets. 
  I 
  find 
  

   that 
  he 
  has 
  a 
  whole 
  lot 
  to 
  say 
  in 
  regard 
  to 
  what 
  the 
  people 
  buy. 
  He 
  has 
  

   found 
  this 
  out, 
  and 
  he 
  has 
  been 
  there 
  a 
  good 
  many 
  years. 
  He 
  says. 
  "I 
  

  

  