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The evening session on Sept. 26th was called to order at 8:10 and 

 a moving ))icture reel, "The Almond Industry in California," loaned 

 by the I)t'i)t. of the Interior, was shown. Following that an address 

 with lantern slides was given by Mr. C. A. Reed of the Dept. of 

 Agriculture, on his recent trip to China. 



Mr. Reed: In 1910 cert;in x\mericans in China conceived the 

 idea of exporting the walnuts produced in that country to America. 

 The experiment proved so successful that they continued to d'o so, and 

 shipped their walnuts to this country year after year. The business 

 built u{) very rapidly, until the war broke out when, for the time 

 being, the industry was forced to a standstill. But as soon as the war 

 was over the business picked up ;:gain, and had assumed such propor- 

 tions, about two years ago, that American growers wanted to know how 

 miuch longer the Chinese would be able to send walnuts over here. 

 Most of the nuts from China were of inferior (]uality to those produced 

 in this country. Records of the exports showed that there had been 

 an increase from China each year; but as to the methods used, the ex- 

 tent of orcharding, or the growth in ])l luting. etc., the matter had not 

 been written up. and the consuls had not the remotest idea. It was 

 finally decided 'by Congress, therefore, that ,i special appropriation 

 for an investigation should be made. So a special trip was made to 

 China to ascertain, first of all, the probable trade from there for the 

 next ten or twenty years. Our people felt that more walnuts would 

 be coming here, and they wanted to know about this before they 

 planted any more here. It fell to my lot to nuake the trip, a year 

 ago this snmmer. 



We went first to Honolulu; then to Manila and Japan, and finally 

 to China. We went into the section just to the right of Tientsin. By 

 superimposing a map of China over that of the United States you 

 may see that China more than covers this country; China is con- 

 siderably larger than the United States. 



Our basic point was Peking, which is in about the same latitude 

 as Philadelphia. We found that walnuts were grown all through this 

 section of China, not verj' much farther north than Peking, but not 

 much farther south than Shanghai. There are walnuts cultivated 

 here, in the Chinese way, over a great area; but we were convinced 

 that the exportation of walnuts to this country was not likely to in- 

 crease, for the business has apparently reached its height. American 

 trade takes the best nuts; the second best go to Canada, the third to 

 Europe and the fourth and' fifth to Australia. 



