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luM'ii j'cniovfMl, so lli;i(. las( ycjir on (liis lil'ly ;i(,'n'S (lu'rc was 

 scarecW a weevil, aiul scarcely a Imrr worm, in the nuts that mii- 

 tiir(Ml there. 



Another portion, showiiii*' yoniij^- trees bending over, breaking 

 down, almost, on that same lifty acres. It Avas taken in 11)11, 

 about the tirst of October. The trees are heavily laden, the nuts 

 perfect. 



Another view showing the sheep doing the mowing. TIk^ cat- 

 tle help with the work. i*igs help, but I do not have a pliolo- 

 graph shoAving tliem. A lot of them were X)nt in after the crops 

 Avere gathered. Tiie men harvested the nuts and afterwards 

 the pigs Avere turned in and found enough to fatten themselves. 

 I think that on the waste mountain land in this State, you could 

 fatten on chestnuts all the pigs that we raise, if we used it for 

 nothing else. 



In harvesting, the nuts gathered in 1911 were hauled to a 

 threshing nnichine. It w^as neceSsSarj^ to have a machine made, 

 the problem of threshing the nuts, getting them out of the buri-s, 

 becoming so great. This shows a photograph of the men hauling 

 the burrs before they are quite ripe, and placing them in piles. 

 They ripen, the burrs open, and the nuts can then be picked out. 



This shows another pile of the burrs. Notice that they are 

 opening. This Avas taken a little later and the nuts were matur- 

 ing. 



Harvesting before we had the machine. The men had to pick 

 them out. The nuts Avere taken out and placed in sacks, all 

 by hand. This shows a pile of burrs. Every burr had to be 

 opened Avith gloves, and it Avas very tedious. The problem was 

 too great, so that a threshing machine AA'as invented by Mr. C. K. 

 Sober esi)ecially for the purpose this last year, and this vieAV 

 shoAVs the machine in operation. The nuts AA'ere hauled in piles 

 in tlie burrs. They Avere llien ])ut (hrougli this machine, Avhich 

 is run b}' a little gasoline engine; the nuts ran out into a basket, 

 AA'ere put into sacks, and later they Avere loaded and carted to the 

 house to be assorted. 



This is the assorting room. They ai'e then packcil in boxes. 

 Here are crates filled Avith nuts. Last year a carl(»ad Avas sent 

 to Seattle, AYashington. Aftei- I he season Avas over, orders A\'ere 

 taken for tAvo carloads to be delivered at Seattle next fall, and 



