About 85 per cent of 
the Angora goat popula- 
tion of the U. S. is in 
Texas and this state pro- 
duced about 85 per cent 
of the mohair in the 
nation. 
* 
The number of sheep 
on Texas farms and 
ranches in 1943, was 10,- 
677,000, valued at $76,- 
068,000, according to the 
U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. 
* 
The annual production 
of honey in Texas, based 
on 1943 figures, is about 
4,704,000 pounds. 
* 
There were 1,532,000 
milk cows on Texas farms 
in 1943. 
* 
Cattle raising is the 
oldest industry in Texas. 
Cattle were introduced 
from Mexico with the 
founding of early mis- 
sions at San Antonio. 
Records show that these 
missions owned cattle as 
early as 1718. 
* 
The total number of 
cattle on Texas farms at 
the beginning of 1943 
was 7,518,000, of which 
5,968,000 were beef cat- 
tle and 1,532,000 dairy 
cattle. 
* 
It has been estimated 
that of an area of fif- 
ten billion acres in the 
world, about one and 
one-half billion are un- 
der cultivation. 
Above picture shows the con- 
dition of the roots of an ordi- 
nary peach tree severely infest- 
grown by U 
ment of Agriculture in experi- 
Valley, Ga. 
ments at Ft. 
This tree 
S. Depart- 
“Good Blood at Both 
Ends of the Tree!” 
These peach trees have never 
* before been available to orchard- 
ists in this territory that we 
Only GRAYWAY offers you 
varieties budded on Shalil and 
Yunnan, two of the nematode 
resistant rootstocks imported 




Above picture shows the 
roots of a peach tree budded 
on Nematode-Resistant Root- 
stock. Both trees were grown 
by government experts at Fort 
Valley, Ga., in the same soil 
at the same time. 

_by U. S. Government from 
The GRAYWAY is the Best Way! 
ROOT-KNOT of peach, caused by a small al- 
most microscopic worm called a NEMATODE has 
long been a serious problem in the warm, well- 
aerated soils of the Southern United States. 
@ Peach roots are so severely attacked by the 
nematodes that peach orchards are a failure in 
many deep, sandy or sandy loam soils that could 
otherwise support profitable crops of peaches. 
@ The nematode frequently kills trees outright, 
as illustrated in the upper picture at the right 
showing the stumps of a large number of trees 
killed during the summer of 1939 in a North 
Texas orchard. This large vacant spot is being 
constantly enlarged as the nematodes are spread- 
ing rapidly to other trees. The owner told me 
that he had already lost 200 bearing trees and 
that he was afraid he was going to lose his entire 
orchard in a few years. 
@ In many cases, under some conditions, infested 
trees are not killed, but are so weakened that the 
Improved WALNUTS 
THOMAS and OHIO. Very fine improved black walnuts with com- 
paratively thin shells. Crack easily and the meats separate easily in 
quarters, sometimes in halves. Delicious, old-time flavor. The black 
walnut makes a _ beautiful, long-lived tree. These improved varieties 
bear very young. Valuabl> nut-producers for home and orchard and 
exceptionally fine for timber plantings. 
WILSON WONDER English. Produces enormous walnuts. Trees are 
good producers and bear young. Recommended for homes but not for 
commercial orchard plantings in our section. 
trees are stunted and bear small crops of inferior 
fruits. The tree marked with an arrow in the 
left hand upper illustration shows a peach tree 
with its root system so weakened by nematode 
that it lost its foliage during the middle of the 
summer. 
@ For a number of years we have offered paper- 
shell pecan trees on our “tested root-stocks,” and 
now we take great pleasure in offering a limited 
number of peach trees of suitable varieties bud- 
ded on Shalil and Yunnan, two of the nematode 
resistant root-stocks imported by the U. S. Gov- 
ernment from China. 
@ So far as known, there is no other satisfactory 
way to grow peaches successfully in spite of 
nematodes, cr to insure against future destruc- 
tion of an orchard by them, than to bud our 
standard varieties on these resistant stocks, which 
means a tree with “good blood at BOTH ends.” 
Don’t you agree that this is cheap insurance for 
orchards? 

