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about the production of improved varieties of valuable nuts, but in 

 my opinion its duties will not be entirely completed until steps are 

 also taken that will cause ail our hig-hways to become not only perfect 

 for transportation, but tlie most alluring in appearance and character, 

 and the most productive, too, of any in the world. How can such a 

 gratifying result as this become an accomplished fact? Simply by 

 close team work and active co-operation upon the part of federal, 

 state, county and township officials, aeting with local civic organiza- 

 tions where essential, during the next few years, in attending to the 

 planning and planting, of every roadway in our country. For this 

 purpose fine and beautiful trees and shrubs should be used, that are 

 valuable in their products also, and which Positively supply in 

 abundance, excellent food substance, to man, bird or beast. 



It is a waste of valuable time, and valuable ground, to plant short 

 lived soft maples, box elders, poplars, willows and other inferior 

 trees, that unfortunately are found so frequently along roadsides, 

 when in fact they should be removed like noxious weeds from a fine 

 garden, in order that food producing trees, nut bearers, and others 

 much longer lived, more beautiful in form and character, may take 

 their place. We of Michigan are delighted that our State Agricultural 

 College, the pioneer of its kind in the country, with its strong pro- 

 gressive management, forwarding many excellent economic measures, 

 is now making a detailed study of the entire state relative to nut and 

 other tree food production. 



You may have read recently in the daily press where a grower paid 

 $50,000 for an improved strawberry plant and, if the account of its 

 claimed remarkable properties are true, it may be worth it, proving the 

 immense value of rare varieties of all choice food plants. That 

 greatly improved walnuts, butternuts, hickory nuts and beech nuts, 

 can be propagated wherever they are indigenous or can be adapted to 

 the soil and climate goes without saying. The beneficial results, of 

 proper selection of seed or scion in nut culture, will be just as certain 

 as w.Tis the development of the Delicious apple, Jonathan, or Northern 

 Spy from common low grade kinds. They will be just as certain as 

 was the development from inferior species, of the rich delicious pecans 

 of the south, the propagation and sale of which, now nets many mil- 

 lions of dollars to the states bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. Here 

 is where roadside planting will play its great part in the evolution of 

 these giant trees, producing as they will, much choice valuable timber, 



