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ment of the nut industry was set on foot. It was be- 

 lieved by these men that such an undertaking -would 

 not in any way interfere with a publication like The 

 Nut Grower covering a particular section but would 

 supply needed information over a wider area. Short- 

 ly after that the American Nut Journal as a monthly 

 publication appeared. 



The first nut book in this country was published 

 by the Orange Judd Company in 1896 under the 

 authorship of Mr. Andrew S. Fuller. This little 

 book while out of date in some respects is never- 

 theless brimful of valuable information. In the 

 same year a volume entitled Nut Culture was pub- 

 lished by the Division of Pomology of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture. This latter pub- 

 lication, while out of print now, may be found for 

 the purpose of reference in many agricultural 

 libraries. The volume contains a large amount of 

 material of such value that the student of the sub- 

 ject will need to have it on his reference list and 

 he may be enabled to pick up a copy by leaving an 

 order with a dealer in old books who keeps lists of 

 books wanted. This is not such a hopeless resource 

 as might be imagined as I have secured practically 

 every old book for which I have ever placed an order 

 within the course of a year or two. Professor H. H. 

 Hume, of Glen Saint Mary, Florida, has more re- 

 cently published a small book on the subject of the 

 pecan which incidentally includes a great deal of ma- 

 terial of general interest to growers of nuts of all 

 sorts. 



