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give the net profit we shall have on our three-acre or- 

 chard. 



References: Bailey's Principles of Fruit Growing. 

 Farmers' Bulletin, No. 178. 

 Waugh 's American Apple Orchard. 

 Farmers' Bulletins, Nos. 113 and 33. 

 Farmers' Bulletin, No. 154. 



LESSON XVIII 



NUT CROPS 



Value of the nut crop. Nuts are not usually thought 

 of as a farm crop, yet every country boy and girl knows 

 that the autumn time without nuts would lose much of 

 its charm. Nuts are valuable food. They are rich and 

 nutritious, and should always be counted as a part of 

 our winter's store. There are several kinds of nut trees 

 which are highly esteemed as ornamental shade trees, as 

 well as for the valuable fruit they yield. 



Some of the leading kinds of nuts are English walnut, 

 almond, white walnut or butternut, black walnut, hickory 

 nut, pecan, chinquapin, chestnut, hazel nut, cocoanut, 

 and Brazil nut. 



Nuts to plant. The planting of nut orchards is to be 

 encouraged on the farm. Several varieties of valuable 

 nuts, such as the pecan, English walnut, and hickory nut, 

 are widely adapted to temperate as well as sub-tropical 

 regions, and should be planted on more of our farms. 

 The pecan, especially such varieties as Mantura and Ap- 

 pomatox, the English walnut, and the little shell-bark 

 or shag-bark hickory, have been successfully grown as 

 far north as latitude 40. If the boys and girls who read 

 this lesson would plant a few nut trees this month, they 



