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I am not a pessimist in regard to nut culture in the state of 

 Pennsylvania. I am rather an optimist. At the present time, as we 

 see the nut situation, we are not in a position to tell the farmers to 

 plant 50 or 60 acres of any kind of nuts. We know that the English 

 walnut will grow. We have living evidence that they will grow and 

 produce crops. We have no black walnut groves that we know of in 

 the state. It is doubtful if our hickories will ever compete with the 

 pecan of the South, and personally I cannot see why they should until 

 we can get some means of cracking them. 



We stand about in this way at the experiment station. In south- 

 eastern Pennsylvania, probably reaching from Adams County, which 

 lies just off the Susquehanna River, up through Dauphin County to 

 Harrisburg, drawing a line to the Delaware River, we are recommend- 

 ing the planting of nuts for home use and in an experimental way, 

 which might be developed on a larger scale eventually. We are en- 

 couraging the people to plant the English walnut and the black walnut, 

 and in certain sections the filberts. There are too many waste areas 

 in Pennsylvania to encourage the filbert on account of the blight, so it 

 practically wipes out the probability of our waste land being planted 

 to hazel nuts. 



In the first place the landowners in the waste-land region of 

 Pennsylvania are very doubtful if it would be economic for them to 

 do so on account of fire, and also on account of the poor soil which is 

 found in our waste land in our mountain section. It is doubtful 

 whether it would be economical to take a high priced tree, which it is 

 necessary to secure if we want to produce a good product, and plant it 

 in such inaccessible places. We can see it in the fruit business so 

 plainly. We have orchards in the state of Pennsylvania that are in- 

 accessible. I know of one very well, back in the timber against the 

 mountain side. They are now forcing the game commission to furnish 

 them an eight-foot fence to put around that orchard to keep the deer 

 from cleaning it up. 



One unfamiliar with Pennsylvania will drive along the roadside 

 and see the thousands of acres not used and think about planting them 

 to nut trees, but it is foolisli to do anything like that. So I might say 

 our recommendations from the experiment station are about like this: 



In soutlieastern Pennsylvania we are encouraging, and will keep 



