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  A 
  few 
  months 
  ago 
  — 
  I 
  got 
  it 
  on 
  the 
  very 
  best 
  authority 
  — 
  there 
  

   was 
  some 
  salesman 
  in 
  Buffalo 
  who 
  didn't 
  have 
  time 
  to 
  call 
  

   on 
  all 
  those 
  who 
  wanted 
  to 
  give 
  him 
  money 
  for 
  pecan 
  proposi- 
  

   tions. 
  He 
  didn't 
  have 
  time, 
  DoctcH*, 
  he 
  just 
  had 
  to 
  skip 
  hun- 
  

   dreds 
  of 
  them, 
  he 
  said; 
  he 
  was 
  just 
  going 
  from 
  one 
  place 
  to 
  an- 
  

   other, 
  making 
  his 
  collections. 
  Buffalo 
  is 
  a 
  city 
  of 
  only 
  about 
  

   450,000 
  people 
  and 
  there 
  must 
  be 
  some 
  money 
  being 
  collected 
  

   and 
  sent 
  in 
  to 
  somebody. 
  

  

  The 
  Chairman: 
  Very 
  glad 
  to 
  hear 
  of 
  that 
  instance; 
  let's 
  

   hear 
  of 
  others. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Littlepage: 
  I 
  would 
  like, 
  if 
  possible, 
  to 
  answer 
  Mr. 
  

   Smith's 
  question. 
  I 
  didn't 
  know 
  that 
  he 
  referred 
  to 
  facts 
  about 
  

   these 
  promotions, 
  I 
  thought 
  perhaps 
  he 
  meant 
  facts 
  about 
  nut 
  

   growing. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Smith: 
  You 
  said 
  you 
  had 
  made 
  inquiries 
  as 
  to 
  nuts, 
  

   harvest 
  yields, 
  orchard 
  yields; 
  it 
  was 
  those, 
  particularly, 
  that 
  

   I 
  had 
  in 
  mind. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Littlepage: 
  Oh 
  well, 
  I 
  could 
  give 
  those 
  to 
  you 
  readily. 
  

   There 
  are 
  some 
  very 
  promising 
  orchards, 
  making 
  a 
  good 
  show- 
  

   ing 
  under 
  investigation, 
  handled 
  under 
  proper 
  conditions 
  and 
  

   of 
  proper 
  size. 
  I 
  would 
  not 
  want 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  those 
  things 
  are 
  

   not 
  possible. 
  Talking 
  specifically 
  of 
  these 
  overgrown 
  schemes, 
  

   one 
  of 
  them 
  is 
  recalled 
  to 
  my 
  mind, 
  a 
  development 
  company 
  in 
  

   southern 
  Georgia, 
  that 
  advertises 
  very 
  alluringly. 
  It 
  set 
  out 
  

   one 
  year 
  a 
  lot 
  of 
  culls; 
  they 
  all 
  died. 
  I 
  am 
  told 
  that 
  they 
  went 
  

   out 
  the 
  second 
  year 
  and, 
  without 
  any 
  further 
  preparation, 
  dug 
  

   holes 
  and 
  set 
  out 
  another 
  lot 
  of 
  cells. 
  They 
  too 
  died; 
  and 
  then 
  

   they 
  went 
  out 
  the 
  third 
  year 
  and 
  planted 
  nuts, 
  and 
  those 
  trees, 
  

   at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  a 
  year's 
  growth, 
  were 
  perhaps 
  six 
  or 
  seven 
  inches 
  

   high, 
  and 
  the 
  salesman 
  from 
  that 
  company, 
  I 
  understood, 
  took 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  prospective 
  purchasers 
  over 
  into 
  a 
  fine 
  grove 
  owned 
  

   by 
  another 
  man 
  on 
  the 
  opposite 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  road, 
  and 
  let 
  him 
  

   pick 
  out 
  his 
  five 
  acres 
  from 
  the 
  orchard 
  across 
  the 
  road. 
  That's 
  

   one 
  type 
  I 
  could 
  multiply 
  indefinitely. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  W. 
  C. 
  Reed: 
  I 
  think 
  this 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  important 
  matter. 
  

   As 
  a 
  nursery 
  man 
  who 
  has 
  sold 
  a 
  great 
  many 
  trees 
  to 
  promot- 
  

   ing 
  companies, 
  I 
  want 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  never, 
  with 
  one 
  ex- 
  

   ception, 
  seen 
  an 
  orchard 
  that 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  success, 
  but 
  I 
  have 
  

   seen 
  hundreds 
  of 
  failures, 
  some 
  of 
  them 
  where 
  they 
  have 
  set 
  out 
  

   orchards 
  of 
  150,000 
  trees 
  and 
  sold 
  them 
  off 
  in 
  one 
  and 
  ten 
  acre 
  

   tracts, 
  and 
  in 
  only 
  one 
  case 
  have 
  I 
  seen 
  a 
  success. 
  I 
  think 
  these 
  

   promotions 
  should 
  be 
  avoided 
  by 
  the 
  nut 
  growers 
  of 
  the 
  North. 
  

  

  