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Here they are again. Even after the trees are of this size, it 

 is necessary to finish the cleaning. They are cleaning out every- 

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



Another view showing them carrying the material to the 

 screens for burning, grubbing out sprouts, so that later it was 

 possible to run a specially constructed mowing machine through 

 it, and much of the undergrowth 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 would 

 catch up with them. 



Here is another view of a tree grafted 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 was abandoned. The Paragon be- 

 gins to bear very early, the second 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 third summer 

 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 portion of the grove, just a little later, showing trees 

 one, two, and three years old, and the tops of a few trees that 

 were grafted in the top. 



This view shows two trees by the roadside, one two years old ; 

 the other in the third season of its growth. Notice the shape. 

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

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

 It is like it is with a peach tree; the shape is much the same as 

 that of a peach tree. 



