BALL OF EARTH 
I strongly recommend that you let us ship large sized trees, by railway 
freight with ball of earth (balled and burlapped). You will be surprised to see 
how reasonable the freight rates are. Your local railway can give you exact 
freight rate to your station. Present rates per 100 pounds, from Purcellville, Va., 
to: 
Philadelphia, Pa., 60¢; Boston, Mass., 91¢; Buffalo, N. Y., 90¢; New York City, 
71¢; Pittsburgh, Pa., 76¢; Chicago, Ill., $1.12. It is difficult to tell in advance 
what the ball of earth with trees of different sizes will weigh. For a rough basis 
we suggest that you figure as follows: Under 6 feet, 75-100 lbs.; 6-8 feet, 150- 
250 lbs.; 8-10 feet, 250-350 lbs.; 10-12 feet, 350-500 lbs. Sometimes they will ex- 
ceed these weights. . 
Planting with ball of earth is the quick way to get a nut tree started. It can 
Start to growing the first year and you save two years’ time. I did it with my 
50 acres of Pecans—trucking the trees fifteen miles. A few years ago I put 40 
balled and burlapped hickories out in a bluegrass sheep pasture. mod all lived 
pte but one. Let us send yours that way. 
ers 
We have shipped balled and burlapped to Texas with complete success. 
Trees will be prepared with ball of earth carefully burlapped and put on 
train for $1.00 per tree extra for trees under 6 ft.; $1.50 for trees 6-8 ft.; $2.50, 
8-10 ft.; $3.50, 10-12 ft. 
FALL PLANTING recommended on Long Island and.on and south of line— 
New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburg. November is an excellent time. In the 
spring plant as early as you can. We do not advise planting before October 25th. 
NORTHERN NUT GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION 
You probably will want to join. George L. State, Secretary, Geneva, N. Y. 
Reading Guides For The Owner Of Nut Trees 
1. THE PLANTING, FERTILIZATION, & CARE OF NUT TREES AND 
PERSIMMONS by J. Russell Smith, ScD, postpaid 25¢. | 
Don’t buy good trees and then kill them by misguided care. This booklet 
will save you many times Its cost and increase the results for all but the most 
skillful. 
2. HOW TO GRAFT NUT TREES. Postpaid 25¢. 
The real fun is to graft your own nut trees. It is not especially difficult but 
it does require special technique. This illustrated booklet tells just how to do it. 
This booklet is Appendix F of the book Tree Crops. So you don’t need both 
unless you want the booklet to carry around with you. 
Reading for Those Who Love Their Country and Want To Know 
Its Resources and Prospects 
1. TREE CROPS, A PERMANENT AGRICULTURE, 
by J. Russell Smith, ScD. 
This book is 300 pages of pleasure to the person who loves trees or 1ovee the 
earth or who likes to hear about things he never thought of before. 
If you have a streak of ingenuity you will like this book. It tells how we are 
on the road to a whole new series of crops that grow on trees instead of on 
straw. Don’t you want to have a hand in this new thing? The tree is nature’s 
real engine of production and this book tells“about some of them—Pecans, Per- 
simmons, Hickories, Hybrids, Black Walnuts, English Walnuts, Honey Locust 
(cowfeed), Acorn bread and other things that are just over the hill waiting to 
come into your yard. 
