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of an incubator. This one did not get any and is about four feet higli. 

 But this one that got the eggs is about twelve feet high. 



Mr. Neilson: Is there the possibility of the larger growth being- 

 due to the stock as well as tlie fertilizer ? 



Mr. Hershey: I don't believe so. I have seen this so often that 

 I don't believe there can be that much difference. But I believe it is 

 all important to have the very best stocks. It is the duty of the nur- 

 seryman not to ship out inferior stock trees. 



California produces about i8 million pounds of English walnuts. 

 There is a large quantity produced in the Northwest. About 25 

 million pounds of pecans are produced in the South. A lot of filberts 

 from the Northwest. Carloads of black walnuts from the middle and 

 southern states. And yet we import about 30 million dollars' worth 

 of nuts per year. It is vaj belief that in a decade we are going to have 

 black walnuts grown in the East like pecans in the South and walnuts 

 on the Pacific Coast. As soon as we have Hoover elected, we believe 

 there is going to be an interesting change in the United States govern- 

 ment. Mr. Hoover made a remark before a scientific body in Phila- 

 delphia a few years ago that he based all progress of the human race 

 on pure science. Pure science is conducted by the man who gives his 

 life to the job without any thought of remuneration. After he has 

 brought liis conclusions to the fore, practical science takes it up, and 

 passes it on to industry. Mr. Hoover expressed the sentiment that it 

 was so sad the United States government could not see its way clear 

 to help pure science to develop. It is our hope that we will have a 

 face-about program and pure science will be assisted by the agricul- 

 tural department at Washington. 



]\Ir. Gellatly of Westbank, B. C, showed slides of a number of 

 trees in his part of the country. 



