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I tried a lot of others, among which were seedling English wal- 

 nuts from St. Catherine's. They did not freeze down at all, but 

 whether they will throw as good a nut as Mr. Pomeroy's I don't 

 know. They are certainly a different nut. 



Then I got a Chinese walnut of Black's nursery, Hightstown, 

 New Jersey, and it is growing remarkably well. All three types of 

 trees are doing very well and are all over my head, sometimes grow- 

 ing three or four feet a year, very rarely less than a yard from each 

 terminal branch, and I have had no winter killing. 



It may be interesting to recount 'a few other things about my 

 place. I had an awful fight with mice. My land is in a valley and 

 the spring floods come down and I can't plow the land or it would all 

 be washed away. I put a tree in and protect it with a certain amount 

 of space around it. I found that the mice would chew down the 

 trees almost as fast as I could get them in, so I got some cats. The 

 cats soon learned to prefer birds to mice so I killed the cats. Then 

 I bought a flock of geese and the geese cropped the grass short and 

 prevented it from growing so powerfully as to smother out the trees. 

 But the geese had hard bills and when the trees were small they 

 clipped off pieces of bark with their bills, so I traded the geese for 

 wild geese. I learned that they are more discriminating in their 

 choice of food and that though their wings are more powerful their 

 bills are not as strong. They have kept the grass down for me and 

 destroyed the homes of the mice. Then I got pheasants in order to 

 rid myself of the insect pests. I feel that in another ten or twenty 

 years we will have a very beautiful place. 



I need not refer to the fact that nuts are very valuable for food. 

 Dentists would all go out of business if we ate nuts. 



Pennsylvania is a state which should certainly take up with its 

 agricultural authorities the possibilities of nut growing because that 

 is a state that can be ruined utterly by trying to grow grain on the 

 hillsides. The water comes down and washes all the rich top soil ofl^ 

 into the creeks and it is lost to us and our children. 



The PteESiDENT: Will the secretary please read Doctor Kel- 

 logg's paper? 



The Secretary : Mr. President, this is a very long paper and 

 I have not read it over. It seems to me that perhaps we have de- 

 voted so much time to genealogy and reminiscences that the time is 

 short for the papers which are to be read by members present. 

 Would it not be well to defer the reading of this paper of Doctor 

 Kellogg's to a later time, or, possibly, merely print it in the proceed- 

 ings? 



Doctor Morris : I move it be laid upon the table and printed 

 in the proceedings. 



The motion was duly seconded and carried. 



(See Appendix for Dr. Kellogg's paper.) ' 



