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LETTER FROM S. W. SNYDER, VICE-PRESIDENT, CENTER 



POINT, IOWA 



New organization and the necessary advertising to get attention 

 cost a lot of money. It is my experience that suggests that we can 

 better make use of organizations already in existence, by which we 

 may obtain all the advertising we need, and that absolutely free. 



Our state, county, and local fairs I have found to be willing and 

 anxious, when approached on the subject, to include a nut premium 

 list in their fair books, and if the premium list is gotten up in a suit- 

 able way to cover the nut growing interests of the locality in wliich 

 the fair is held, we can accomplish all that can be desired without 

 any extra expense. 



To bring out newly discovered varieties special cash premiums 

 should be offered and I find this to be one of the best means by which 

 to bring out all the desirable varieties of a given locality. 



I have just lately returned from our state fair where I acted as 

 superintendent and judge of the nut department. Through this source 

 I have just located a very worthwhile shagbark hickory. This nut has 

 made its appearance at our state fair for the second time and just came 

 to my attention at this last fair. I have not seen the tree or as yet 

 gotten in touch with the owner. The nut has not yet been named but 

 I am going to suggest that it be named for the owner of the tree, wliich 

 if agreeable to them will be Doolittle. 



Through a similar source I have located a pecan tree that is fully 

 fifty miles farther north than any other native pecan tree yet dis- 

 covered. This tree is out in the interior of Iowa away from the large 

 streams where the most northern pecan trees heretofore have been 

 found. This all comes through the free advertising obtained in the 

 state, county and local fairs. 



I can name quite a long list of the best nuts now known in our 

 state that were located in this same way. The Elmer and Upton 



