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been removed, so thai, last year on this lifty acres there was 

 scarcely a weevil, and scarcely a burr worm, in the nuts that ma- 

 tured there. 



Another portion, showing young trees bending over, breaking 

 down, almost, on that same fifty acres. It was taken in 1911, 

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

 perfect. 



Another view shoAviug the sheep doing the mowing. The cat- 

 tle help with the work. Tigs help, but I do not have a photo- 

 graph showing them. A lot of them were put in after the crops 

 were gathered. The men harvested the nuts and afterwards 

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

 1 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 machine. It was necessary to have a machine made, 

 I he problem of threshing the nuts, getting them out of the burrs, 

 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 was taken a little later and the nuts Avere matur- 

 ing. 



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

 ihem out. The nuts were taken out and placed in sacks, all 

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

 opened with gloves, and it was very tedious. The problem was 

 too great, so that a threshing machine was invented by Mr. C. K. 

 Sober especially for the purpose this last year, and this view 

 shows the machine in operation. The nuts were hauled in piles 

 in the burrs. They were then put through this machine, which 

 is run by a little gasoline engine ; the nuts ran out into a basket, 

 were put into sacks, and later they were loaded and carted to the 

 house to be assorted. 



Tin's is the assorting room. They are then packed in boxes. 

 Here are crates filled with nuts. Last year a carload was sent 

 to Seattle, Washington. After the season was over, orders were 

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



