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methods^ as with apples?", we may reply, "Well, plant black walnuts." 

 When asked further, "Will the varieties you recommend bear an- 

 nually, when can I expect commercial returns, what will be the yield 

 per acre, what prices may I expect, what are the best varieties and 

 the best market, what are the marketing methods," and so on, what can 

 we say more than, "Well, we can give you what we think are pretty 

 good guesses, founded on a certain number of facts." But com- 

 mercial growers don't want our guesses. 



We are still primitives in the art of nut growing. We have caused 

 no upheaval in the thick crust of general ignorance about it, no 

 emergence of a flashing beacon to guide the world. Our annual 

 discussions are still more important and more fruitful than our public 

 preaching. Preaching never converts the heart but education does. 

 I have tried preaching and it has failed invariably. I have given 

 up trying to convince anybody by sermons. Only by my works shall 

 I conquer. The Chinese say, "One picture is worth a thousand 

 words." We should not feel disturbed because we have not created 

 a furor for nut growing. We can wait. We can watch a hickory 

 grow. There is plenty of time ahead. The American people are not 

 yet starving. Sometime it will all come suddenly to the rest of the 

 world, that which we know and that which we believe. Even though 

 it may not come in the life time of some of us let us label our trees 

 with our names in enduring metal and die happy in the hope that a 

 single variety may bear it forever. 



If there must be reproaches let each reproach himself for what 

 he has not done and praise others for what they have done, and not the 

 reverse. Let those who would have us plant more orchards, or urge 

 the public to plant orchards, first show their faith and ability by 

 planting orchards themselves. Let us not try to hold others up to an 

 undertaking that we do not ourselves venture. It is true that a 

 number of our members have small demonstration orchards under 

 good conditions. It is true that the late E. A. Riehl had realized 

 some profits from his plantings, mostly from chestnuts. But not one 

 of us has an orchard producing commercial results, nor even planned 

 for extensive commercial results. How then can we shout to the 

 public to plant orchards ? 



The matter is simple at bottom. As an association, among our- 



