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The finest method of all for the nut industry on the level sandy 

 loams of the Peninsula is to let the nuts be the second story of a pig 

 farm — a pastured pig farm. Let the hogs harvest (hogdown) a suc- 

 cession of crops — clover, corn, cowpeas, soybeans, rye, vetch, crimson 

 clover, possibly wheat. This is the new thing in hog raising. It 

 eliminates the cost of harvesting. Therefore, the encroachment of the 

 nut trees in this plan is not felt so much as a cost factor. You 

 cultivate your nut trees. In so doing you produce a side crop. The pigs 

 harvest it. This system is used in southern pecan orchards, makes nut 

 trees grow, and should cause them to be produced at no cost whatever 

 because the pigs should pay the expenses. 



If you want to go into the nut industry without spending any money, 

 plant seeds of these trees in the place where you wish the tree, cover 

 them with earth, three inches of straw, protect them with stout stakes 

 (very stout) and graft them when they are from two to six or eight 

 years old. After these well established trees are grafted, you can 

 expect nuts about as soon as you should expect apples from the slower 

 varieties of apples receiving similar care. 



If you are a sentimentalist, if your trees have someone who is not 

 lazy to love them, you may plant your trees or your nuts down the lane, 

 along the boundaries of the land, along the fences which separate your 

 own and your neighbor's fields. They can be made to thrive in such 

 places. Nature is raising millions of them in just such places; so are 

 the French and the Swiss and other peoples of the old world . 



The President: Mr. Spencer will read the paper prepared by 

 Conrad Vollertsen. 



