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on encouraging^ any individual to plant English walnuts and' the black 

 walnut. Througliout our mountain section we encourage nothing other 

 than the black walnut. It is doubtful whether we should encourage 

 them along that line except in the ordinary bottom land and farm land 

 where the black walnut will grow. It is a great feeder. In Erie 

 County we have a section that is comparable with New York and the 

 territory where Englisli walnuts will thrive successfully. Tlie Hall 

 tree stands there as evidence that the English walnut will grow. We 

 have one seedling grove of 225 trees. In another location near Reading 

 there are trees that were brought here from France. There are several 

 similar groves scattered over the state. Unfortunately most of them 

 are seedlings and have a varying crop. 



I think you can readily see, in the fertile valley you have been in 

 during the last few days, that it would be poor policy to tell the 

 farmers of this section to plant these fertile fields, where they are 

 growing crops of tobacco and corn, and feeding alfalfa and raising 

 good dairy herds, to plant nut crops when you take into consideration 

 the competition we are bound to meet with in the nuts from the South, 

 the West, and from Brazil. They could probably use their land to 

 better advantage for the production of some other crops that can be 

 more readily consumed and that are in greater demand. 



We are not going to advance very much until we can acquire some 

 location in southeastern Pennsylvania where we can be sure of the 

 climatic conditions that permit the trees to grow. We are outsidte of 

 that belt, therefore it is not worth spending much time in trying experi- 

 ments elsewhere. We hope eventually to be able to maintain a branch 

 of the experiment farm in southeastern Pennsylvania, and of course 

 when that time comes there will be experimenting in nut growing in 

 this section. 



Mr. Hershev: How many English walnut trees are there in the 

 state ? 



Prof. Fagan: I think a little over 5,000 English walnut trees, 

 mostly seedlings. We have had one bad winter since we made the 

 enumeration and a good many were killed, but T think there are ap- 

 proximately that number in the state now. 



The President: Did I understand you to say that you are ad- 



