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bearing of nut trees, both as to earliness and prolificness, have usually 

 been understood to be with trees carefully cultivated and heavily 

 fertilized, this is not the usual condition under which nut trees grow, 

 for they are frequently found bearing good crops when growing on 

 land so rough that cultivation is impossible. They probably will not 

 bear as large crops over a series of years, but it is believed that paying 

 crops can be so grown, and so land may be utilized for nut growing 

 that is too steep for regular farm crops. It is expected that we will 

 learn at this meeting something that i§ being done in this line. In- 

 deed it is hoped and believed that this meeting will record more facts 

 regarding commercial nut growing than have heretofore been gotten 

 together. 



