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Mr. Dalbj: We dou't cliarj^e them for Llie laud. The or- 

 chard hind we put that up against their trees. The ouly cash 

 reut is the pasture hind. Tliere isn't anytiiiug in the lease 

 about that and I don't know whether we would get any better 

 results if there was. It is just an understanding we have 

 with the tenants. The tenants themselves started it. We saw 

 what one or two men could do and we saw what a good thing 

 it was. If they put in an acre or two of small fruit and got 

 returns the next year that land costs them nothing. But we 

 haven't hardly got into that yet, as the average corn farmer 

 don't figure that way. If he put in an acre of small fruit it 

 cuts down his acreage for corn. I don't think a fruit farmer 

 could be a very heavy grain farmer. 



Secretary Marshall : How much do you think a family 

 orchard and windbreak or grove will add to the value of a 

 farm in case it is on the market? 



Mr. Dalby : If you are selling it to a man to make a home 

 out of it it will make a big difference. Of course, land in Ne- 

 braska is valued according to its productiveness. Land sells 

 in our neighborhood with orchards and good sets of improve- 

 ments for better prices than lands without these improve- 

 ments. The good farmers are beginning to figure on that 

 more now than they did before; they begin to talk about 

 whether there is anything started on the farm, and fruit is 

 one of the things that takes time to grow. In addition to the 

 fruit we are growing quite a lot of catalpa trees for fence 

 posts on the north side of the house. We have had good suc- 

 cess thus far in having them cared for by the man that runs 

 the farm, and he uses them for a windbreak. 



A Member: Do you plant your trees pretty thick? 



Mr. Dalby : I planted them 8 feet by 4, 8 feet between the 

 rows. I did that so we could drive between the rows to cut 

 out the posts. 



A Member: It seems that if the trees are scattered thev 

 don't make posts as well. 



Mr. Dalby: That is true, I haven't had much experience 



