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11 ere they are aj^aiii. Even after Llie trees arc of this size, it 

 is necessary to iinisli llie eleaiiiiig'. They are eh'aiiiiig out every- 

 thing; any suspicions sijzn, any dead tree, is cut out. 



Another view showing them carrying the material to the 

 screens for burning, — grul)bing out sprouts, so that later it was 

 possible to run a s])eciall\- constructed mowing nmchine through 

 it, and much of the nndergrowth could be cut off in that way. 

 It is possible to run a mowing machine through nearly all of the 

 four hundred acres, except where there are too many stones. 



Originally the idea occurred to Mr. Sober to graft the tops of 

 a few of the trees," and we had full sized trees in which eight or 

 ten grafts were set on the top. This view shows one where the 

 top was grafted ; this one is another, with the top grafted. That, 

 however, did not prove successful, because you would have only 

 a few limbs in the top, and in a little while the others Avonld 

 catch up with them. 



Here is another view of a trc' urafted at the top, and this a 

 younger tree, two years old, beginning to bear nearly as many 

 nuts as the grafts at the top of the other tree. You can see, 

 therefore, why that method Avas abandoned. The Paragon be- 

 gins to bear very early, the secoinl year after grafting; occa- 

 sionally the first year a burr or two will mature. 



Now the grove is beginning to look cleaner. These trees are 

 two or three years old. This was taken in the summer time, in 

 June, before the trees had blossomed. This is a young tree two 

 years from the time the graft was set, really the thii-d snnimei' 

 for it; a typical tree. It is now making independent roots for 

 itself and in a little while it will be free from the old stump. 

 .Many of the old stumps are still standing. Some of them have 

 rotted away. 



Another poi-ti(»n of the grove, just a little later, showing trees 

 one, two, and three years obi, and lh(^ to])s of a few trees that 

 were grafted in the toj). 



This view shows tw(» trees l»y the roadside, one two years old; 

 tlie otlier in tiie third season of its gi-o\\th. Xol ice the sha}>e. 

 They were cut low, so as to secure this low crown, wliicli makes 

 it convenient in harvesting the nuts. It keeps the trees low. 

 It is like it is with a peach tree; the sha]>e is much the same as 

 that (►f a i)each tree. 



