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on it seems to me that those items that we can gather from any one 

 place on any variety should be carefully recorded, and at Mr. Bixby's 

 suggestion I would like to ask if there is anyone present who can give 

 us the details, names and addresses of persons who have commercial 

 yields, or yields that are perhaps not commercial but are interesting 

 from an investigator's point of view as showing the possibilities of 

 nut trees if planted commercially. 



Mr. Bixby: The Year Book of the Department of Agriculture 

 gives yields on Mr. Wilkinson's place as follows : 



PECANS AT J. F. WILKINSON'S PLACE, ROCKPORT, IND. 



Indiana Majo'' 



1913 191-'^ 



Yield 1920 5 lbs. 3 lbs. lbs. lbs. 



lbs. lbs. 



6 lbs. 3 lbs- 

 4 lbs. 11 lbs. 



7 lbs. 16 lbs. 

 23 lbs. 22 lbs. 

 62 lbs. 45 lbs 



Year Book U. S. Dept. Agriculture 1927 P485 



* The Greenriver tree was budded in 1915 and left in the nursery row. It 

 bore a few nuts in 1917 and 1918 and 3 pounds in 1919. 



You can see that there is an increase, which, though not perfectly 

 regular, is consistent until it gets to quite sizable figures. 



Mr. Weber: Of the trees that were permitted to grow in the 

 old nursery, those in the centre which did not get as much light did 

 not bear as much as those on the outside, which proves a tree should 

 not be shaded by surrounding trees. 



Mr. Spencer: At Farina, Illinois, there is a firm, Whitford 

 Bros., who run a nursery in which they are raising chestnuts, pecans, 

 hickories and walnuts to a limited extent. Their father some years 

 ago planted some chestnut trees and two years ago I received a letter 

 from them, when I was making a little investigation for local trees, 

 in which they submitted that three and a half acres of chestnut trees 

 planted by their father some 2.5 3'ears ago had produced a crop which 

 they sold in Chicago. L^nfortunately they did not do as Miss Riehl 

 did. They had two different brokers, one sold the crop at 35c per 



