NUTS AS A PROFITABLE 

 CROP 



THE BUSINESS SIDE or NUT GROWING 



A CHESTNUT bushf* exclaimed a visitor; 

 "that is the greatest marvel I have seen 

 yet. I was brought up under chestnut 

 trees; but when I see chestnuts growing on 

 huckleberry bushes I am certainly having a new 

 experience." 



And no doubt this experience would be new 

 to almost anyone who has not visited my experi- 

 ment farm at Sebastopol. For, so far as known 

 to me until very recently, there have been no 

 chestnuts growing on bushes anywhere else in the 

 world. But there are plenty of them in the 

 orchard at Sebastopol ; that is to say, if a sprig of 

 a shrub only three feet or so in height and three 

 feet across is entitled to be called a bush. 



Moreover the nuts that are borne on these 

 miniature trees are of the finest variety large, 

 plump nuts, at least as large as half a dozen of 

 the ordinary eastern nuts you are likely to find 



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