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Many trees, such as olives, English walnuts and 

 pecans, grow well in North Carolina. The pecan 

 grows luxuriantly, and every farmer in the State 

 ought to plant the nuts on his farm. They grow very 

 vigorously in all parts of the State, and particularly 

 so in the alluvial soil of the east, and every nut 

 planted in November or December w^ll germinate. 

 The trees are much valued on the Mississippi for fat- 

 tening hogs. I have a tree in my yard that at eigh- 

 teen years of age bore five bushels of nuts. The 

 nuts sell readily for twenty cents a pound, and as a 

 crop for profit I think them well worthy of consid- 

 eration. — R. B. H. 



Warren. (450 sq. miles.) — Ridgeway, Sept. 9, 

 1882. — The prevailing grow^ths of our forests are 

 pine (short-leafed), and oak (white, red, Spanish and 

 post) ; other growths are dogwood, hickory, gum, 

 walnut, etc. The acreage in forest is 55 per cent., as 

 follows ; pine 30 per cent., oak 25 per cent. — P. 11. A. 



Wayne. (550 sq. miles.)— Fremont, Sept. 6, 1882. 

 — We have in this county, oaks, hickorj^ gum, ash, 

 mulberry, dogwood, walnut, etc., in small quantities ; 

 long-leaf and short-leaf pine the prevailing growth. 

 About 40 per cent, of the county is woodland, 25 

 per cent, in pine timber. — W. E. F. 



Wilson. (350 sq. miles.) — Stantonsburg, Sept. 4, 

 1882. — Our forests are principally pine, witli oak, 

 hickory, poplar, and some walnut. The prevailing 

 growth is the long-leaf pine, except on Toisnot 

 Swamp and Big Contentnea Creek, where are oak. 



