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one, so he hired two men to get him a nice tree, and he told 

 them to be very careful to get all the tap root. He came home 

 at noon, and asked his wife if the men had come home yet with 

 the tree. She said no, they had not. "Well," he said, "I 

 guess I will have to get some one else." He came home at 

 night and saw a couple of men digging a well. He said to them, 

 "What are you doingV" "We are digging a hole for your 

 treee." The tree was fifteen feet long. The tree above ground 

 was seven feet, and the tap root was eight feet long. The men 

 said, " You told us to get it all, and we did." That tree grew. 

 (Laughter). 



Mr. Dartt: Prom the experience I have had with the black 

 walnut in Steele county, a man need not flatter himself on the 

 fortune he is going to make growing black walnuts in Min- 

 nesota. 



Mr. C. L. Smith: If Mr. Dartt does not succeed in growing 

 black walnuts, I don't know that I would recommend any one to 

 do it, but judging from what I saw on Mr. Lord's place I should 

 think it was a very fine industry. They grow well on the 

 prairie. I have found them in a great many different places. 

 I think Mr. Lord's method of planting is the most economical, 

 and I would certainly recommend the planting of the tree 

 where it is to grow. I have had considerable experience in 

 regard to transplanting, and 1 prefer to cut off the tap root eight 

 to ten inches below the ground. In the spring when they are 

 a year old, just cut off the tap root and cut off the top and let 

 them come up, and the next year they will have some side roots, 

 and they can be very easily transplanted— or they can be trans- 

 planted two years afterwards. They can be transplanted at 

 the end of three years, but you want to cut off the tap root 

 again, the same as in the beginning, as they throw out tap 

 roots again. 



Mr. Lord: Not so directly, but more or less. 



Mr. Smith: I had a little experience in getting black wal- 

 nuts from the South, and it will hardly agree with what Mr. 

 Dartt has said. I had some call for black walnuts, and sold 

 more than I could spare, so I sent to Rockford, Illinois, and 

 got five bu.shels. I sold four bushels and had one bushel left. 

 Afterwards I got three bushels from a neighbor of Mr. Ken- 

 ney's. and I planted the lot in two rows. I planted the one 

 bushel from Rockford as far as they went continuously and 

 finished with the other lot, and the last row was all in black 

 walnuts grown in Rice county. The first winter every tree 



