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  by 
  reputation. 
  He 
  has 
  some 
  pictures 
  here, 
  and 
  I 
  shall 
  take 
  the 
  

   liberty 
  of 
  passing 
  them 
  around 
  for 
  you 
  to 
  look 
  at, 
  and 
  I 
  am 
  going 
  

   to 
  say 
  that 
  these 
  are 
  pictures 
  it 
  certainly 
  does 
  my 
  heart 
  good 
  to 
  see. 
  

   They 
  are 
  pictures 
  of 
  his 
  orchard 
  down 
  South. 
  Just 
  pass 
  them 
  

   around 
  please. 
  

  

  Col. 
  Van 
  Duzee: 
  Mr. 
  Chairman, 
  Ladies 
  and 
  Gentlemen: 
  

   I 
  told 
  your 
  President 
  the 
  first 
  thing 
  when 
  I 
  got 
  in 
  this 
  morning 
  that 
  

   I 
  didn't 
  care 
  to 
  have 
  any 
  place 
  on 
  the 
  program; 
  that 
  I 
  would 
  be 
  glad 
  

   to 
  talk 
  at 
  any 
  time 
  on 
  any 
  subject 
  he 
  wished 
  me 
  to, 
  and 
  do 
  anything 
  

   I 
  could 
  to 
  help 
  along. 
  That 
  puts 
  me 
  in 
  bad 
  to 
  start 
  with. 
  As 
  I 
  

   have 
  listened 
  to 
  the 
  discussions 
  of 
  your 
  meeting 
  the 
  thought 
  has 
  

   come 
  to 
  me 
  that 
  you 
  are 
  following 
  along 
  very 
  much 
  the 
  same 
  path- 
  

   way 
  that 
  the 
  southern 
  nut 
  growers 
  traversed 
  five 
  or 
  six 
  or 
  seven 
  

   years 
  ago. 
  We 
  are 
  a 
  little 
  further 
  along 
  in 
  the 
  growing 
  of 
  nut 
  

   orchards 
  in 
  the 
  South, 
  but 
  you 
  are 
  certainly 
  going 
  to 
  get 
  along 
  and 
  

   be 
  abreast 
  of 
  us 
  in 
  time. 
  Perhaps 
  I 
  may 
  be 
  able 
  to 
  do 
  more 
  good 
  

   if 
  I 
  confine 
  myself 
  to 
  a 
  few 
  practical 
  suggestions 
  as 
  to 
  how 
  I 
  think 
  

   nut 
  orchards 
  can 
  best 
  be 
  produced. 
  Those 
  pictures 
  represent 
  an 
  

   orchard 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  in 
  southwestern 
  Georgia 
  and 
  have 
  grown 
  

   under 
  adverse 
  conditions. 
  The 
  pictures 
  show 
  the 
  culmination 
  of 
  

   years 
  of 
  earnest 
  effort. 
  They 
  represent 
  what 
  I 
  consider 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  very 
  

   reasonable 
  success 
  from 
  a 
  practical 
  standpoint. 
  I 
  am 
  a 
  farmer 
  and 
  

   the 
  first 
  thing 
  I 
  require 
  of 
  my 
  farm 
  is 
  that 
  it 
  shall 
  pay. 
  I 
  have 
  no 
  

   theories; 
  I 
  have 
  no 
  ideals 
  but 
  those 
  which 
  must 
  stand 
  that 
  test. 
  I 
  

   am 
  in 
  farming 
  to 
  make 
  it 
  a 
  success; 
  it 
  is 
  my 
  business 
  and 
  everything 
  

   I 
  do 
  must 
  stand 
  that 
  test. 
  If 
  it 
  doesn't 
  pay 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  successful. 
  

   That 
  orchard 
  represents 
  the 
  culmination 
  of 
  years 
  of 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  

   problem 
  of 
  how 
  to 
  grow 
  a 
  pecan 
  orchard 
  on 
  my 
  ranch. 
  That 
  bunch 
  

   of 
  hogs 
  represents 
  about 
  one 
  hundred 
  and 
  fifty 
  we 
  selected 
  about 
  

   three 
  weeks 
  ago 
  to 
  put 
  in 
  our 
  early 
  peanut 
  patch 
  down 
  there 
  to 
  

   finish 
  them 
  up 
  as 
  pork, 
  but 
  it 
  does 
  not 
  show 
  my 
  breeders 
  or 
  young 
  

   stock. 
  I 
  could 
  talk 
  hogs 
  to 
  you 
  until 
  the 
  cows 
  come 
  home. 
  I 
  set 
  

   my 
  mark 
  a 
  year 
  ago 
  last 
  spring, 
  after 
  being 
  twice 
  wiped 
  out 
  by 
  the 
  

   cholera, 
  I 
  set 
  my 
  mark 
  at 
  fifty 
  thousand 
  pounds 
  of 
  meat 
  from 
  my 
  

   orchard, 
  and 
  I 
  want 
  to 
  say 
  I 
  have 
  animals 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  orchard 
  and 
  

   in 
  the 
  peanut 
  field 
  together 
  to 
  make 
  that 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  margin 
  to 
  the 
  

   good. 
  I 
  expect 
  our 
  orchard 
  will 
  produce 
  this 
  year 
  more 
  than 
  fifty 
  

   thousand 
  pounds 
  of 
  hams, 
  bacon 
  and 
  lard. 
  The 
  reason 
  I 
  am 
  talking 
  

   about 
  this 
  is 
  that 
  I 
  want 
  to 
  emphasize 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  growing 
  of 
  

   nut 
  trees 
  is 
  a 
  business 
  proposition. 
  I 
  want 
  to 
  say, 
  in 
  passing, 
  that 
  I 
  

   believe 
  no 
  better 
  thing 
  could 
  happen 
  to 
  the 
  people 
  who 
  live 
  in 
  

   America 
  than 
  that 
  every 
  man 
  who 
  owns 
  land 
  might 
  plant 
  a 
  few 
  

  

  