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best to be appreciated. These trees are excellent lawn trees because 

 they are not hard on the grass. They are interesting to watch and it is 

 delightful to pick up their nuts. The hazels and filberts are also excel- 

 lent yard material. 1 am taking my own advice on this nut shade 

 business. 



As a commercial basis a nut industry on the Peninsula needs but the 

 application of energy and brains and capital, but the jjerson who starts 

 here and now to depend on nut trees as his only source of income 

 is either a capitalist with some other source of income or a fool. There 

 is always no one crop agriculture anywhere in the world that has proved 

 itself satisfactory for any long period of time. Hence the most im- 

 portant advice I would give is to go slow and learn as you go. One 

 crop agricultures are a poor dependence because they tend to be un- 

 certain in yield and because of the element of overhead expense — the 

 long season of no work when men and equipment have no work. 



I would especially commend the idea of a two story agriculture. 

 You have here in the Peninsula a wonderful series of agricultures of 

 different sorts depending upon the different soils. 



To the trucker I suggest that he set a few trees on his farm and go 

 on trucking. I have seen excellent truck farms in New Jersey carried 

 on between the rows of apple trees, which thrive on the cultivation of 

 the truck farm. Go look at your famous pecan tree with a limb spread 

 each way of 120 feet, a height of 120 feet, and a girth at breast height 

 of 16 feet, 4 inches. It covers nearly an acre of ground. It requires 

 fully an acre. To a truck farmer who wants to go into the nut business 

 I suggest that he plant pecan trees in rows 150 feet apart, the trees 

 100 feet apart in the row and go on witli his truck farming. The 

 young trees will not rob much land, nor will they bother the machinery 

 greatly. In due time the truckers will have majestic pecan trees under 

 their absolute maximum possibilities of production and they will inter- 

 fere with his machinery but little. This system of growing nuts is 

 practiced in Europe. Nearly all the Persian nut crop of Eurojje is 

 grown that way. 



By the same theory the black walnuts should be planted in rows 100 

 feet apart, the trees 80 feet apart. Persian walnuts 90 feet by 75 

 feet. 



