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them and extracting tlie seed. A warm room with a stove in 

 it, a greenhouse, evaporating house, large oven if not allowed 

 to get too hot, etc., will answer, much depending upon the 

 amount to be handled. In Germany there are buildings con- 

 structed for the purpose, where slat trays containing the cones 

 are placed one above the other, and as the seeds drop out 



Fig. 4. Seedling Black Walnut. Seeds (nuts) were planted in 

 November, 1901, and this photograph was taken the following 

 October. 



when stirred, they fall through and are collected at the 

 bottom. 



One of our ingenious men in this state got permission from 

 a large lumberman in his section to cut such trees as he 

 wanted. The trees were to be cut anyway the following 

 winter, and it was an advantage to the lumberman to get them 

 cut for nothing. This man, Mr. James H. Bliss, of Win- 



