bat 3 Fal: dist now cancelled, 
GAP Fired Bees: list issued in september, and 
NEWS BULLETIN AND PRICE LIST 
SUNNY RIDGE NURSERY, JANUARY 10th, ape 
hicece THESE PRICES GOOD UNTIL JUNE Ast, 1945. (2. 
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: S A ee oe | ‘THEY DO BEAR NUTS! 
se abe you Want to buy a chestnut. tree. no valley 
ready produced nuts? We have those trees! — 
_ Here : are passages from unsolicited letters. 
: ce ia Ohio, October 1944 — “T received a fine specimen ae i 
- 1942, which is doing fine and bearing its third crop.” mest) tréms J ay, Quire 
Another customer writes, 9/27/41, Hancock, Md. — “One of my ereatest: JOVSenF 
was’ to pick up five - chestnuts ‘under your Chinese chestnut tree; a squirrel beat 
me to three nuts.” 
Sele ee - Those trees were: planted in ie spring of the same year in which the gentle- 
cage man and the ‘squirrel had the race for the nuts. They were unusually precocious 
trees. You : May expect our chestnut AT ERS to pear sooner ules apples if given as 
= Pood 6 care as the apple. requires. ze 
os = en ee)  EAE-THRILL OF GATHERING NUTS 
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eee ee ey GP oderane the thrill of these two middle aged professional men at 
we U pigkings up chestnuts. Ripening chestnuts are beautiful things. It thrills me to 
3 — walk through the nursery in September and October and see the glossy brown | 
ae eae nuts peeping out of opening burrs and to find nice nuts on the ground. | 
My satisfaction at this has no relation to such earthly matters as eating. 
ee “ Nut trees are fun, as well as food supply. They give you a sense. of achievement 
2 _ when you see them produce their nuggets of nutrition. 
Ko i‘ I gave two seedling trees to one of my suburban oe ne some years ago. 
aoe ee Now: you would almost think he was a bantam rooster- to hear him crowing 
about the chestnuts he gets. He has a lot of fun giving nuts to his friends. And - 
_ incidentally he sends his friends to me to buy trees so that they too may join 
Be EFOUD, oe the peu entally: elect and the eaters of B00d. food. 
ses sf iia NUTS IN 1948 OR SOONER 
a Carne! Be are About 20 to one in your favor that you will get cede in 
1948 if you plant in’1945 as follows: Plant one or more of each of two varieties of 


ik = "away from the trees until September first for 2 seasons. Fertilize as our booklet 
_ Girects and you are in for a 2 party or 3 party race depending on whether it is 
ou and ae or you, ae and squirrels. — i oe 
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pia eee WAR AND ACTS OF GOD 


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“5 SAGOK mpany from responsibility from acts of war and acts of God. Unfortunately 
there is no such protective umbrella over the heads of nurserymen, particularly | 
such: experimentalists as nut tree nurserymen have to be. 
Me aie ao We have been struck by both war and acts of God. af : 
ee \War has increased the cost of our > materials and supplies, made some un- 
at? 2 available. ne. 
Co ee pire ors hac doubled, neh more than doubled, the rate of day’s wages 
for: workmen n the last 30° months, and ‘worse than that, it has materially re- 
: _ duced the available supply. # 
a we 33 _ Unorganized farm labor is oy fant black market. What oat the farmer 
ae pay to get his corn cut and save the crop? Some of my neighbors paid $10. a day 
Pets last fall—and our help walked off to. get same We can’t pay it. 
- saa ieee Wars has cut off our sources of seed for some important varieties. 







a kept the: trees from making half of the expected growth. It also killed thousands 
see ae Of late: transplanted seedlings because we could: not water them. Labor shortage 
ie Kept us from ‘Planting them at the right time. — 
e ace Mss eet a e0ls aes and made He a tiie worse than i in 1943. 

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er The act of God aspect of the matter showed up in the form of a drought in — 
the summer of 1943 which greatly reduced the catch of our spring grafting and 
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our grafted varieties near to each other (about 35 feet). Keep grass and weeds ‘ 
