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  magazines 
  that 
  were 
  published 
  from 
  the 
  South 
  to 
  the 
  North. 
  Every- 
  

   thing 
  seemed 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  failure 
  and 
  finally 
  I 
  got 
  disgusted 
  and 
  said 
  

   "We 
  will 
  do 
  it 
  to 
  suit 
  ourselves." 
  After 
  we 
  had 
  tried 
  all 
  the 
  hard 
  

   ways 
  in 
  Christendom 
  I 
  think 
  we 
  have 
  at 
  last 
  found 
  an 
  easy 
  way 
  to 
  

   do 
  it. 
  Like 
  everything 
  else 
  it 
  is 
  easy 
  when 
  you 
  know 
  how. 
  I 
  

   believe 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  fact— 
  and 
  I 
  am 
  saying 
  nothing 
  but 
  what 
  I 
  believe 
  — 
  I 
  

   don't 
  believe 
  you 
  will 
  ever 
  successfully 
  graft 
  pecan 
  trees 
  in 
  the 
  North, 
  

   unless 
  you 
  equalize 
  your 
  sap 
  flow 
  by 
  pruning 
  your 
  roots. 
  I 
  tried 
  it 
  

   and 
  failed. 
  It 
  is 
  possible 
  you 
  may 
  be 
  able 
  to 
  side 
  graft 
  under 
  most 
  

   favorable 
  conditions. 
  You 
  may 
  make 
  a 
  side 
  graft 
  take 
  if 
  you 
  leave 
  

   the 
  top 
  on 
  to 
  take 
  care 
  of 
  the 
  extra 
  sap 
  flow. 
  You 
  take 
  off 
  the 
  top 
  

   of 
  a 
  pecan 
  tree, 
  or 
  any 
  other 
  nut 
  tree 
  in 
  this 
  country, 
  and 
  you 
  ruin 
  

   your 
  root 
  system 
  because 
  your 
  sap 
  comes 
  with 
  such 
  vengeance 
  — 
  and 
  

   it 
  comes! 
  One 
  day 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  show 
  of 
  sap 
  and 
  the 
  next 
  day 
  it 
  

   comes 
  with 
  vengeance. 
  Differences 
  in 
  the 
  soil, 
  of 
  course, 
  makes 
  

   some 
  difference. 
  At 
  Mr. 
  Littlepage's 
  place, 
  Paul 
  had 
  the 
  sap 
  a 
  

   week 
  before 
  I 
  did 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Wilkinson 
  had 
  it 
  four 
  days 
  before. 
  A 
  

   great 
  many 
  of 
  our 
  top 
  works 
  are 
  going 
  to 
  the 
  bad 
  because 
  we 
  ruined 
  

   the 
  root 
  system 
  when 
  we 
  cut 
  the 
  tree. 
  And 
  I 
  want 
  to 
  say 
  it 
  again, 
  

   I 
  don't 
  believe 
  we 
  can 
  make 
  a 
  success 
  of 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  North. 
  You 
  may 
  

   do 
  it 
  in 
  Oregon 
  where 
  you 
  have 
  a 
  distributed 
  sap 
  flow. 
  The 
  Oregon 
  

   fellows 
  say 
  you 
  can't 
  bud, 
  because 
  they 
  don't 
  know 
  how. 
  They 
  

   say 
  the 
  only 
  way 
  you 
  can 
  produce 
  trees 
  is 
  to 
  graft. 
  That 
  may 
  be 
  

   true 
  out 
  there 
  but 
  you 
  can't 
  graft 
  in 
  Indiana, 
  I 
  know, 
  especially 
  on 
  

   my 
  place. 
  Of 
  course 
  the 
  soil 
  of 
  each 
  particular 
  farm 
  has 
  something 
  

   to 
  do 
  with 
  it. 
  To 
  illustrate 
  my 
  point, 
  the 
  first 
  year 
  I 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  

   state 
  of 
  Wisconsin, 
  on 
  the 
  20th 
  of 
  June, 
  I 
  was 
  out 
  in 
  the 
  country 
  

   and 
  saw 
  a 
  man 
  setting 
  tobacco. 
  I 
  knew 
  him 
  and 
  I 
  said, 
  "Won't 
  

   that 
  tobacco 
  get 
  frost 
  bit?" 
  and 
  he 
  said, 
  "I 
  reckon 
  not. 
  It 
  might 
  

   but 
  it 
  never 
  did. 
  " 
  I 
  thought 
  it 
  would, 
  but 
  I 
  went 
  that 
  way 
  in 
  two 
  

   weeks 
  again 
  and 
  I 
  changed 
  my 
  mind. 
  I 
  had 
  been 
  used 
  to 
  seeing 
  

   tobacco 
  growing 
  in 
  the 
  Ohio 
  valley 
  where 
  it 
  does 
  its 
  growing 
  in 
  the 
  

   latter 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  season. 
  In 
  the 
  South 
  the 
  sap 
  flow 
  is 
  much 
  better 
  

   distributed 
  than 
  it 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  North. 
  

  

  Now, 
  then, 
  I 
  have 
  brought 
  a 
  board 
  along 
  with 
  these 
  young 
  trees 
  

   stuck 
  in 
  it, 
  because 
  I 
  thought 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  members 
  would 
  like 
  to 
  

   see 
  a 
  demonstration. 
  The 
  tools 
  I 
  have 
  here 
  are 
  not 
  adequate, 
  

   hardly, 
  for 
  the 
  job. 
  For 
  a 
  tree 
  that 
  size 
  we 
  take 
  a 
  saw 
  to 
  it. 
  

  

  (Here 
  Mr. 
  McCoy 
  makes 
  a 
  demonstration 
  of 
  cleft 
  grafting.) 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Potter: 
  Would 
  you 
  have 
  a 
  scion 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  that 
  in 
  actual 
  

   work? 
  

  

  