NUTS AS A PROFITABLE 

 CROP 



THE BUSINESS SIDE OF NUT GROWING 



A CHESTNUT bushr exclaimed a visitor; 

 "that is the greatest marvel I have seen yet. 

 I was brought up under chestnut trees; but 

 when I see chestnuts growing on huckleberry 

 bushes I am certainly having a new experience." 



And I suppose this experience would be new 

 to almost anyone who has not visited my experi- 

 ment farm at Sebastopol. For, so far as I know, 

 until very recently, there have been no chestnuts 

 growing on bushes anywhere else in the world. 

 But there are plenty of them in my orchard at 

 Sebastopol; that is to say, if a sprig of a shrub 

 only three feet or so in height and three feet across 

 is entitled to be called a bush. 



Moreover the nuts that are borne on these 

 miniature trees are of the finest variety large, 

 plump nuts, at least as large as half a dozen of the 

 nuts you are likely to find growing on chestnut 



[VOLUME XI CHAPTER I] 



