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  from 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  business 
  in 
  particular, 
  will 
  help 
  and, 
  when 
  these 
  

   favor 
  further 
  investigation, 
  there 
  are 
  two 
  essentials 
  for 
  a 
  wise 
  decision. 
  

   First, 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  records 
  of 
  the 
  promoters, 
  and 
  second, 
  a 
  -personal 
  

   examination 
  of 
  the 
  property. 
  If 
  these 
  can^be 
  thoroughly 
  made, 
  and 
  the 
  

   results 
  are 
  satisfactory 
  after 
  a 
  suitable 
  period 
  of 
  mental 
  incubation, 
  if 
  

   the 
  prospects 
  will 
  stand 
  the 
  candle 
  test 
  for 
  fertility, 
  you 
  may 
  put 
  some 
  

   money 
  on 
  the 
  chance 
  of 
  a 
  good 
  hatch 
  ; 
  remembering, 
  too, 
  that 
  many 
  a 
  

   good 
  hatch 
  afterward 
  comes 
  to 
  grief 
  with 
  the 
  pip. 
  

  

  Some 
  promotions 
  are 
  conceived 
  in 
  iniquity, 
  some 
  in 
  drunkenness 
  

   and 
  folly 
  and 
  some 
  are 
  abortive 
  from 
  incapacity. 
  Your 
  legitimate 
  and 
  

   well-born, 
  well-brought-up 
  promotion, 
  fathered 
  by 
  ability 
  and 
  mothered 
  

   by 
  honesty, 
  it 
  is 
  your 
  problem 
  to 
  recognize, 
  if 
  that 
  is 
  what 
  you 
  are 
  look- 
  

   ing 
  for, 
  and 
  to 
  avoid 
  the 
  low-born 
  trickster 
  or 
  incapable. 
  No 
  one 
  can 
  

   tell 
  you 
  how 
  to 
  do 
  this 
  any 
  more 
  than 
  he 
  can 
  tell 
  you 
  an 
  easy 
  way 
  to 
  

   graft 
  hickories. 
  

  

  The 
  northern 
  nut 
  grower 
  is 
  not 
  yet 
  bothered 
  with 
  northern 
  nut 
  

   promotions. 
  At 
  most 
  he 
  is 
  called 
  on 
  to 
  discount 
  the 
  statements 
  of 
  sellers 
  

   of 
  trees, 
  Mnd 
  that 
  a 
  little, 
  not 
  too 
  expensive, 
  experience 
  will 
  teach 
  him. 
  

   The 
  West 
  is 
  apparently 
  too 
  busy 
  selling 
  fruit 
  and 
  fruit 
  lands 
  to 
  lay 
  out 
  

   nuts 
  to 
  trap 
  eastern 
  nibblers. 
  But 
  the 
  allurements 
  of 
  pecan 
  growing 
  in 
  

   the 
  South 
  are 
  spread 
  before 
  us 
  with 
  our 
  bread 
  and 
  butter 
  and 
  morning 
  

   coffee. 
  The 
  orange 
  and 
  pomelo 
  properties 
  have 
  been 
  banished 
  from 
  the 
  

   stage, 
  or 
  made 
  to 
  play 
  second 
  fiddle, 
  and 
  now 
  we 
  see 
  in 
  the 
  limelight 
  

   the 
  pecan 
  plantation, 
  with 
  a 
  vista 
  of 
  provision 
  for 
  old 
  age 
  and 
  insurance 
  

   for 
  our 
  children. 
  And 
  there 
  shall 
  be 
  no 
  work 
  nor 
  care 
  nor 
  trouble 
  

   about 
  it 
  at 
  all. 
  Only 
  something 
  down 
  and 
  about 
  ten 
  dollars 
  a 
  month 
  for 
  

   ninety-six 
  months. 
  And 
  the 
  intercropping 
  is 
  to 
  more 
  than 
  pay 
  for 
  that. 
  

   It 
  is 
  indeed 
  an 
  enticing 
  presentation. 
  

  

  Although 
  we 
  have 
  as 
  yet 
  no 
  northern 
  nut 
  promotions 
  we 
  may 
  ex- 
  

   pect 
  the 
  time 
  when 
  the 
  sandy 
  barrens 
  of 
  the 
  shore 
  and 
  the 
  boulder 
  

   pastures 
  of 
  the 
  rock 
  ribbed 
  hills 
  will 
  be 
  cut 
  up 
  into 
  five 
  acre 
  plots 
  and 
  

   promoted 
  as 
  the 
  natural 
  home 
  of 
  the 
  chestnut 
  and 
  the 
  hickory, 
  holding 
  

   potential 
  fortunes 
  for 
  their 
  developers. 
  I 
  hope 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  so 
  for 
  it 
  will 
  

   postulate 
  a 
  foundation 
  in 
  fact. 
  But 
  the 
  chestnut 
  blight 
  and 
  the 
  unre- 
  

   sponsiveness 
  of 
  the 
  hickory 
  to 
  propagation 
  as 
  yet 
  hold 
  up 
  these 
  future 
  

   camp 
  followers 
  of 
  the 
  northern 
  nut 
  growing 
  pioneers. 
  So 
  that 
  for 
  the 
  

   present 
  there 
  is 
  only 
  the 
  sword 
  of 
  the 
  southern 
  pecan 
  promoter 
  to 
  parry. 
  

  

  It 
  would 
  be 
  a 
  work 
  of 
  supererogation 
  and 
  effrontery 
  for 
  me 
  to 
  at- 
  

   tempt 
  to 
  treat 
  this 
  subject 
  in 
  particular 
  since 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  so 
  clearly 
  and 
  

   ably 
  done 
  by 
  Col. 
  C. 
  A. 
  Van 
  Duzee 
  of 
  St. 
  Paul, 
  Minn., 
  and 
  Viking, 
  

   Fla., 
  from 
  the 
  standpoint 
  of 
  long 
  experience 
  and 
  full 
  knowledge. 
  His 
  

   paper 
  should 
  be 
  read 
  by 
  all 
  interested 
  persons. 
  I 
  am 
  permitted 
  to 
  make 
  

   the 
  following 
  quotations 
  from 
  it 
  : 
  

  

  