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hundred acres of Blue Ridge mountainside. Most of the soil on this 

 slope is many feet in depth to bedrock but this place is about some- 

 where from two and a lialf to five feet deep; probably nearer two 

 and a half. 



I may say that this tree comes through Avith a crop this year when 

 pecans, native black walnuts, and most of the nearby hickories are 

 bearing little or no fruit. I have a sample with me. 



Another Fairbanks grafted on a bitternut in an uncultivated field 

 with deep earth bore some nuts on the third year after grafting. 



jNIy real point is that many land owners can keep on with their 

 present farming, their present land, their present equipment, and add 

 a nut crop with small additional cost. Income from this source will 

 be in the nature of clear profit. That is the way the French do it 

 and we are paying them millions of dollars a year for the nuts. 



I should add in conclusion that the methods of cultivation that I 

 have been talking about are those that can be ajaplied only where some- 

 thing approaching personal interest is given to the trees. In other 

 words, this is a story for the tree lover and for the land owner rather 

 than for the tenant or the absent-treatment farmer, although I myself 

 am an agriculturist of the partially absent-treatment variety. 



Professor Neilson introduced Mr. J. Lockie Wilson, SuiDcrinten- 

 dent, Ontario Horticultural Association, Department of Agriculture, 

 Toronto. 



Mr. Wilson: I am glad to meet so many of the delegates of 

 the Northern Nut Growers Association and I wish to extend to you the 

 hearty good wishes of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. We 

 are working along similar lines with you in the department. We have 

 a number of organizations that are encouraging the splendid work 

 that you are doing. Mr. Neilson asked me to give you a short des- 

 cription of our horticultural association that is doing quite a lot of 

 work for civic improvement in the Province of Ontario. 



About 20 years ago we had a few hundred members, and today as 

 Mr. Neilson has told you, we have a membership of some 80,000 paid 

 members and some 300 branches scattered throughout Ontario. The 



