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ing a heifer which will not give down until a log 

 chain is laid across the small of her back. 



Down in Louisiana they tell of an old colored man 

 who barely managed to support his family with hard 

 work in cotton and corn although he worked long 

 hours and faithfully. Now that he is old and crip- 

 pled with rheumatism, no longer able to raise cotton 

 on his few acres, six pecan trees which he set out 

 bring him a larger income than he had at the time 

 when he could work at his best. This lesson may 

 be carried to New England where grafted nut trees 

 of many kinds will bring good income to the modern 

 farmer. 



The Big Four species of tree nuts for expansive 

 development in the United States during the present 

 century will probably be the pecan for the south, the 

 shagbark for the northeast, the black walnut for the 

 central west, and the Persian walnut for the Pa- 

 cific coast. There will perhaps be controversy be- 

 fore long as to whether the pecan or the black wal- 

 nut is to be our national tree. The pecan has the 

 best running start but the black walnut has a larger 

 range. All of these four species will overlap to some 

 extent in all four localities and great progress will 

 be made with almonds, hazels, chestnuts, and pine 

 nuts. Among the annual plant nut crops the peanut 

 will be grown largely on dry land and the water 

 chestnut and the water chinkapin in wet acres now 

 occupied by worthless reeds and water hyacinths. We 

 may fairly predict that the Big Four group of nut 



