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creamy fluid. This is considered by some scientific men as of more 

 value than cow's milk. Dr. Marsh tells us they used to let it ferment 

 and they called the first drink "kiskitomas." What the second drink 

 was called he said he did not know Init it was powerful. The Indian 

 name was "pawcohicora." 



This starts in with my nursery work and will give you an idea of 

 how we go about the business. We prepare the ground, mark out the 

 rows and plant the nuts one by one in the fall. We then harrow the 

 rows shut and try not to get the nuts too deep, because if you do they 

 rot. So what we do is to plant them shallow and cover them up next 

 spring. I planted them too deep this last year and had a fine 

 failure. Mr. Jones planted shallow and had excellent results. 



Here is a setting of seedlings taken, I think, the latter part of 

 July, about up to the middle of your thigh or the hip. The three and 

 a half to four feet wide rows have grown shut. A setting of about 

 12,000 trees. After growing them for a year we take them up, prune 

 and transplant them. Get your rows wide enough or you will cuss 

 when you are trying to prune. 



After the trees are grafted the stock must be sprouted well. After 

 the grafts have grown for some time with two or three shoots on 

 them, the boys break off all but the strongest and straightest shoot. 



We do not stake them until they get about two to three feet higb. 

 They come out rapidly and if we don't get them tied the wind very 

 often breaks them off. 



Here is a Thomas three and a half feet high grafted about four 

 weeks. W^e have a lot of Thomas every year at the end of the season 

 from six to eight feet high. Mr. Jones had some that grew as high as 

 fifteen feet in one year. 



We dig the trees and heel them right back in the row. I find 

 one of the most disastrous things in heeling them in a trench is to get 

 them packed too close and leave air spaces among the roots. We dig 

 no trees for heeling in through the winter. They do so much better 

 when dug immediateh' before shipping. 



Here is a bunch of trees brought into the packing house to be 

 heeled in to fill immediate orders. Now here is another thing that I 

 think is of intense interest to tlie nut g-rower. Some vears ajro a 

 man down at Berlin, Maryland, bought two Wiltz Mayettes from Mr. 

 Jones. He planted the two. This one got a half bushel of eggs out 



