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here are living close to some of the most magnificent natural trees I 

 have ever seen, and yet the}- will go and plant around their gardens 

 trees that will do nothing in the world but produce shade. It seems 

 to me there is room for the best kind of missionary work here. I have 

 been very much pleased and very glad I came, and if I were not 

 thoroughly tied up in a section I think is more adapted to nut growing, 

 I should come up here and undertake to do something in this section, 

 for I see great possibilities." 



Similar talks were made by others without the effect it should have 

 had. 



Many had long ago found that pecan trees would not come true 

 to seed planted, after waiting many years for these seedling trees to 

 come into bearing, and are too doubtful of a budded or grafted tree 

 to pay the price these trees must be sold at. Consequently those who 

 plant are setting only a very few trees on trial, before venturing on a 

 commercial scale. 



Mr. J. A. Hopkins, cashier of the Old Rockport Bank, Rockport, 

 Indiana, nine years ago planted one tree given him by R. L. McCoy, 

 and three years later planted four more that I gave him. The other 

 day he told me that the nine-year-old tree had over a bushel of pecans 

 on it, and the four six-year-old ones had from a few to a gallon each, 

 and remarked that had he planted a five-acre orchard at the time he 

 planted his first tree he could now quit his bank job. He gave me an 

 order for thirty trees, enough to fill all available space on his town lots. 



My young trees are bearing wonderfully this year. Some are fairly 

 bending under their load of nuts, as are some of my neighbors' who 

 purchased some of my trees several years ago. 



I have a Busseron tree now thirteen years old, the crop on which 

 is estimated by good pecan judges to be from seventy-five to one hun- 

 dred pounds, and other trees younger are bearing correspondingly 

 well. 



The bearing of these few trees in this neighborhood will be 

 responsible for more pecan trees being planted in Spencer County 

 during the next twelve months than liive been planted here in the 

 last five years. 



With the exception of the meeting of the Northern Nut Growers 



