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the same man may take the entire crop next year. What that 

 will be I cannot say. This year it was between three and four 

 thousand bushels, including good and bad nuts. 



In this view typical burrs are shown. Notice how thin the 

 husks are on many of them. 



Another burr. It does not look as if it could cover the nuts. 

 In fact, it could not now, because the burr has shrunken away 

 as it dried out, leaving the nuts. Four, five and often seven 

 nuts are found in a burr. 



This view shows seven in a burr. Notice that they are 

 crowded in, which gives them irregular shapes. 



In this view the nuts in the lower row are covering silver half 

 dollars. The seven below 7 measured over ten inches. Eight of 

 them measured thirteen inches. 



In this view the nut in the lower right hand corner is covering 

 a silver dollar; the other four covering silver half dollars. 

 Above, are typical burrs. 



Here are thirty-two selected nuts, measuring one quart. 

 Another group of the burrs as they were taken from one tree, a 

 little seedling three years old. 



Forest fires were started in the mountains above by hunters, 

 carelessly or otherwise. They run down into the grove, so that 

 it is necessary to watch cautiously. Perhaps, however, the burn- 

 ing of the part above helped to destroy some of the weevils and 

 some of the burr worms ; but of course the danger is that it will 

 get into the grove, and it did burn over nearly ten acres at one 

 time. This view shows a fire lane; the building of a fire lane, 

 between a grove and the woods above. It shows what the grove 

 would have been had it not been cultivated and put to this use. 

 That is the land immediately above it, full of chestnut timber. 



This shows another point, showing on one side where the fire 

 just went through. It did not get into the grove. The trees are 

 dead, not from the blight in that case, but from the fire. It 

 shows on the other side chestnut grafted to Paragon, and the 

 four hundred acres is practically surrounded on three sides by 

 that same kind of timber. 



There are other enemies. Meadow mice girdle the young 

 sprouts at times. The sprout shown in this view was girdled 



