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results. 1 could not think of anytliing much more, patriotic than 

 ))lanting avenues of memorinl uut trees. Nut trees are better to look 

 at than are many of the monuments erected, and the patriotic societies 

 do not realize the truth in this. There is a case where with a stroke 

 of the pen, the nut trees could' be increased all over the country. 



Then consider the home demonstration agents in the country- 

 They have the women organized and are in touch with the men of 

 ])rogressive thought and feeling everywhere; and it seems to me that 

 Wf could make more use of them. It would seem that if this or- 

 ffani/.atiou could in some way raise the money to have someone talk at 

 these demonstration meetings, it would' not be long before the value 

 and the beauty of luit trees would show the use of doing this splendid 

 work, ^^"hat more effective .metliods could there be than to go to 

 the state meetings held by home demonstration agents twice a year, 

 and talk nuts to those people? They go honiic and talk these same 

 things to all of the women in their little organizations and communi- 

 ties. There is no rapid' transit method more effective than that. Then, 

 when the women are taking up a su'bject like that, men are apt to 

 read it also. 



Another form of ad\crlisiug thai is e(|ually imporlaul is in men's 

 organizations. A number of years ago Mr. Hutt went (h)wn tlirougli 

 the i-astern ])art of the state on the old farmers' institute work. He 

 took with him a case fixed u]) to display nuts. He talked about them, 

 .and especially about ])ecans. Tlie ])eople had' never seen anything 

 but the little, old, wild pecan, and they became enthusiastic. When 

 \()ii gel a farmer enthusiastic you are doing something. The people 

 l)eeanie (piite enthusiastic- and planted quite a innnber of orchards. 

 Mr. Hutt left the de))artment and the new man who eauit; in was not 

 |)artieularly enthusiastic about nuts. Then Mr. Curran came into the 

 work and decided there was nothing he eoidd do better than to urge 

 them to plant«niit trees. He is trying to get an unlimited quantity of 

 pecans and walnut trees planted and he hopes to have a large number 

 of trees ])ut in within a few years. 



To paraphrase what Mr. Littlepage said this uu)rning, in connec- 

 tioji with the raising of hogs,in getting the world to plant more trees, 

 to use more nuts and to appreciate the value of nut trees for both 

 beauty and use, you need 90 percent of advertising; and let the 8 

 percent be the man and 2 percent be the nut. 



Uh. Morris: Last year, when my experiments with the use of 



