210 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Orange Jiidcl Company, ]^ew York, 1906, for its informa- 

 tion, the charm of its style and the enthusiasm of the author. 



" ISTut Culture in the United States," United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, 1896, should also be read, but is 

 out of print and scarce. 



The government publishes separate bulletins on the pecan, 

 walnut and other nuts, their food value, diseases, etc., and 

 most of the States where the pecan and walnut are grown 

 have issued bulletins on these nuts. Most of these, and other 

 nut literature, are listed in a circular of the I^orthern ISTut 

 Growers Association, sent free on application to the secre- 

 tary, and the annual reports of this association contain 

 papers and discussions on different phases of nut growing. 



Cax Nuts be gkown ix Xew Englats^d? 



Of course every one knows that a great quantity of nuts 

 is already gro\\ai in 'New England, but every one also knows 

 that most of them grow where nature planted them. What 

 we want to know is whether we can grow nuts that will be 

 greatly superior to the wild nuts, — the ordinary run, — 

 and whether we can grow them in quantity for our own use 

 or for commercial purposes. 



The answer will come under the following two heads: — 



1. The Developmeni of Our Native Nuts. 

 The pecan in the south shows us what can be done. It 

 is just as possible with our own native nuts. Far off in 

 the fields and forests there is many an old nut tree that bears 

 a nut worth growing; there must be some that are better 

 than most of us have ever seen. Year by year these ai*e 

 passing away and, with our diminishing forests, they are 

 not being replaced by nature. We now know how to propa- 

 gate nut trees. It is therefore the duty of every one who 

 cares anything about such things to make known to some 

 authority any tree whose nuts he thinks sufficiently valuable 

 that it may be propagated. If it is any incentive to such 

 an act, it is safe to promise that the nut, if worthy of per- 

 ])etuation, will be given the name of the ]-)erson who first 

 makes it known. There are as vet not a half dozen northern 



