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and a few of the other more upland counties that the hickories bear 

 full crops. 



There are a very few pecan trees in this state, none of them native 

 and I do not know of any that produce enough pecans to amount to 

 very much. 



The chestnut blight has gotten fairly well established throughout 

 most of if not the entire state and is beginning to show up rather ex- 

 tensively in our forests. 



Native hazels bear fairly well. The European hazels that have 

 been tried out in this section have not done very well owing, I think, to 

 the many and very sudden changes of temperature during the winter 

 months. 



The forests through this section are made up to a gireat extent of 

 beech trees. They bear a great many nuts but these are too small 

 to be of commercial value at the present time. 



JOHN E. CANNADAY. 



Council Grove, Kansas, 

 August 16th, 1926. 



Regarding the nut situation in Kansas wish to say that we have had 

 three very dry years and my forty grafted pecans have practically no 

 growth. My chestnut trees are about all killed with the droutli, the 

 most severe in a half century. This climate is suitable for northern 

 pecans if the weather is seasonable. 



I have a number of grafted black walnuts (5 varieties). Some of 

 these are bearing. I believe that Thomas is the best. So far the 

 McCoy bears heavily but the nuts are not as large or as easy to crack. 



I have a Burlington hican grafted on pecan which is the best 

 grower on the place. It stands extremes of weather. I grafted it 

 from a tree secured from Snyder Brothers. I think the Iowa trees 

 are best for our climate. 



I have an English Walnut six years old which was about ready to 

 bear when a freeze on the 28th of last October killed the crop. Our 

 air is too dry in Kansas to grow English walnuts. Winter killing 

 follows. The English walnut to stand mucli cold must have a moist air. 



JAMES SHARPE. 



