Olive orchards of 
Spain yield about one 
and one - half billion 
pounds of olives yearly. 
* 
It’s getting so that 
everything we want to 
do is illegal, immoral, or 
fattening. 
* 
Some_ varieties of 
grape vines continue 
fruitful for at least 300 
to 400 years. 
* 
As late as 1850, to- 
matoes were called “In- 
dian Apples” and wide- 
ly believed to be poison- 
ous. 
* 
The oldest tree in the 
world, according to Mis- 
souri Botanical Bulletin, 
is a bald cypress grow- 
ing in Santa Maria del 
Tula, Mexico. It is 125 
fet in circumference, 
bre 4,000 to 6,000 years 
old. 
* 
There are more than 
1,125 different kinds of 
trees. How many do 
you know? 
* 
The average -age of 
trees, says Bureau of 
Forestry, is between 200 
and 300 years. 
* 
Dead leaves should not 
be burned but buried for 
their humus. 
* 
By Act of Legislature, 
the stately pecan is the 
State Tree of Texas. 
* 
A wise man will make 
more opportunities than 
he finds. 
* 
There is no way of 
making a good cloak out 
of bad cloth. 
* 
Wild birds do not sing 
more than 8 to Li weeks 
THREE 
The highest commu- 
nity on earth is said to 
be at  Hanie, Tibet, 
where a cloister of Bud- 
dhist priests live at an 
altitude of 16,000 feet. 


YES! IT’S TRUE! 
The Amazing Story of the 
THE NEW PEAR 
CREATED BY A COW! 

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GRAYWAY y “i 

TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION 
And you'll agree after you have read this story of the 
new GRAYWAY “TEXKING” PEAR—for the truth is that 
this pear was actually created by a cow. 
Here’s the true story. Several years ago a Texas family 
purchased a pear tree. This family owned a cow that, like 
other cows, enjoyed eating green grass to give a lot of good 
white milk, as is the habit of all good cows. 
One day the family tied a rope around her neck—not to 
hang her, of course, but to keep her from wandering off. 
They tied the rope to a stake in the back yard so that she 
might eat the luscious grass that grew near the pear tree. 
The cow managed to get the rope wrapped securely around 
the young pear tree, breaking it off beneath the ground. It 
surely looked like the end of that pear tree. But lo—soon 
IT’S 
NEW! 
IT’S DIFFERENT! 
IT’S TRULY A 
FINE PEAR! 
Photo shows 
actual size of the 
new GRAYWAY 
“TEXKING” Pear 
—the pear that 
was created by a 
cow. 

a green sprout appeared from below the graft, from the 
original wild or seedling roots. This sprout grew rapidly 
and soon began to bear pears. And what pears! Nobody 
had ever seen anything like them. Experts in the U. 8. 
Department of Agriculture said that so far as they knew, 
it was unlike any named variety. 
The cow had created an entirely new pear. The TEX- 
KING is an early bearer—little trees only 3 to 4 feet high 
bear heavily. The tree appears highly resistant to blight. 
The fruits are large, russet in color, and get sweet on the 
tree. It ripens early and keeps a long time. 
{ have kept them in my refrigerator until 
after Christmas. Flesh is smooth with prac- 
tically no grit. It’s grand for canning and 
preserving—and tastes mighty good right off 
the tree. We have never seen a pear produce 
more heavily, and the tree is a good, upright 
grower. 
We're propagating this new GRAYWAY 
“TEXKING” Pear as rapidly as possible. No 
trees are available for this 1945-46 season, but 
we hope to have some ready for the fall of 
1946. 

