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NUT GROWING EAST OF THE ALLEGHENIES 

 By Thomas P. Littlepage, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. President: 



I have listened with a great deal of pleasure to what ^Ir. .1. F. 

 Wilkinson has just said. I know so much of his excellent work in con- 

 nection with northern nut culture that what he had to say was par- 

 ticularly interesting to me. I do not know of anyone who knows more 

 about the northern pecan than Mr. Wilkinson. I recently visited 

 some of the large trees in southern Indiana and in Kentucky which he 

 has climbed from time to time to secure budwood to distribute over the 

 country. One of these trees must be nearly two hundred feet tall. 

 Many of them are as much as forty feet to the first limb. Had it 

 not been for his patriotic interest in this work and his al)ility to climb 

 these trees, it miglit have T3een a long time before we could liave 

 gotten budwood from them, if ever. 



I wish there were more here in attendance to see the wonderful 

 collection of nuts that Mr. C. A. Reed has on exhibition. It is one 

 of the finest in the world. He has for years been making a very care- 

 ful survey of nut trees all over the country and has a most complete 

 fund of information on the subect and Is entitled to very great credit. 



i>': a meeting of the Executive Committee last night, I proposed 

 that we hold our future meetings at the State Agricultural Colleges 

 in order to get this proposition more clearly before the young men of 

 tlie country. The students at the various Agricultural Colleges are 

 going to be the county agents and up-to-date farmers of the future. 

 I was specially anxious that we should hold the next meeting at the 

 Agricultural College of Illinois. It is a wonderful institution with 

 a great body of students and if one-third of them only could see the 

 fine collection of nuts Mr. Reed has, together with the lantern slides 

 and pictures he has, it would, in my opinion, produce more results 

 than we have been able to accomplish in our sixteen years of existence. 



