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nut trees instead of mere bunches of leaves (to which 

 we accord freely enough an estimate of beauty) is 

 that people have not stopped to think about it as yet. 

 If people in this century were to think of every- 

 thing all at once the people of two thousand years 

 from now would have nothing to do excepting to 

 mope around and devote themselves to ancestor 

 worship. 



Along with development of nut industry at the 

 beginning of the century came a need for expression 

 on the part of men who were doing new work. Soci- 

 eties were formed and publications were planned for 

 the purpose of recording and disseminating knowl- 

 edge of the subject. The first journal devoted wholly 

 to the subject of nuts was published at Poulan, 

 Georgia, in 1902, under the editorial management 

 of Dr. C. F. Wilson, although the Fruit and Nut 

 Journal had been previously published at Petersburg, 

 Virginia, with H. H. Hume and W. N. Roper as 

 editors. The Nut Grower has given particular at- 

 tention to the pecan and has been a potent factor in 

 the establishment of that great industry in the south. 

 In 1914, as a result of the suggestion of a pioneer 

 in nut subjects, Dr. W. C. Deming, of Wilton, Con- 

 necticut, and a conference at Washington between 

 Mr. R. T. Olcott, of Rochester, New York, editor 

 of the American Fruits Magazine, President T. P. 

 Littlepage, of the Northern Nut Growers' Associa- 

 tion, Messrs. C. A. Reed, E. R. Lake, and C. P. 

 Close, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the 

 production of a national magazine for the develop- 



