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state, and I sent them a list of the people from whom they could get 

 trees. 



Now I think it would be good policy to send information to the 

 various agriculture schools, giving them what we know of their par- 

 ticular territory based on our experiences, and also send this infor- 

 mation to the farm bureaus. 



The President : Mr, Olcott, what do you think about the sug- 

 gestion to send a delegate to the nurserymen's convention. You are 

 familiar with the nursery trade. 



Mr. Olcott: That's a good suggestion, Mr. President. I 

 don't know — I had thought of Mr. Jones, who is in the nursery 

 business. It might mean competition for him but I didn't think he 

 would be able to supply all the trees that might be needed. Mr. 

 Jones, by the way, is a regular attendant at the nurserymen's asso- 

 ciation. 



The President : He would be the man of all men to carry the 

 message and I am sure that he would be very glad to. 



Mr. Corsan : Mr. Chairman, I have an idea that the best thing 

 we can do is carry on a magazine campaign this winter. Now my 

 wife is a very good magazine writer and can fix up anything in 

 good shape. Send me along all the photographs you can to the 

 Brooklyn Central Y. M. C. A., where I will be located this winter, 

 and on cold, wet days and odd days I don't work, why, we can get 

 up some magazine articles on nut growing. 



The President : It affords me great pleasure to introduce Air. 

 Bixby. 



THE EXPERIMENTAL NUT ORCHARD 

 WiLLARD G. BixBY, Baldwin, N. Y. 



We have heard much about the desirability of the experimental 

 nut orchard and the association has repeatedly urged the planting of 

 such by each one of the agricultural experiment stations in the 

 country. These have been advocated in order that we might learn of 

 the behavior of the fine varieties of nuts that we now have under 

 varying conditions of soil and climate, and in this way accumulate 

 the experience out of which to make positive recommendations as to 

 the species and varieties that might be planted in any given section 

 with reasonably assured prospects of success. 



The association has been criticised, sometimes a little harshly T 

 have thought, for the lack of specific planting recommendations, for, 

 as a general rule, that was what those interested have wanted. They 

 did not want to be experimenters ; they wanted to plant varieties and 

 get reliable estimates of the returns that might be expected and in- 

 formation as to the returns that similar plantings have shown. 

 Indeed the statement has been made that, unless the association could 

 give this, it could not hold its members and would largely fail in its 

 mission. 



