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FACTS POINT TO PROFIT!! 
The production of honey locust at Auburn, Ala. The many reports of chestnuts 
bearing 100 lbs. at 10 to 12 years of age, selling for from 407 to $1.00 a lb., 
black walnuts $8.00 per bushel, blueberries $2,000 an acre is an indication of -- 
it's time now for America to start in planting her slopes and ridges, wet meadows 
and rocky knolls to "crop trees" to fortify ones income in mixed farming. 
For the first time in years we're proudly able to offer Thomas, Elmer Meyers, 
Ohio, Cornell, and Broadview English in strong two year sizes up to 10 ft., Chinese 
Chestnut up to 6 ft., Honey Locust up to 12 ft. 
Remember - my experience in planting America's #1 "Tree Crop" farm shows it 
pays to recommend the largest tree - for quick bearing = to get above cattle reach - 
to make you feel good. 
PROGRESS OF THE TREE CROP FARM 
This fall there isn't much to says Progress on America's number one "tree 
crop" farm is somewhat at a standstill while the trees grOWe 
Winter kill after the wet fall, early freeze and terrible winter, was rough 
on honey locust and mulberry and bad on persimmone It's quite jarring to have to 
wait another year or two while the trees make heads again or new trees become 
established. My two year plantings of Black and English walnut interplanted to 
Chinese chestnut are roaring along - even planted on poor, rocky land. Of course 
we mulched them heavily with manure, 6 to 10 ft. across with weeds kept mowed by 
scythe and sickle. 
This spring we planted a 5 acre, poor, rocky sand field to filberts and chest- 
nuts, a heavy wet meadow of over two acres to all kinds of hickory, pecans, and 
hicans with persimmons as fillers for hog and cattle feed. One field yet to go 
with walnut and chestnut. These mulched with two dirt shovels of composted back 
house manure, then 5 to 7 dirt shovels of leaf compost. Ye hoed twice in mid-summer 
and scythed twice. Will be mulched more with manure or rotten pea vines from a pea 
sheller. 
On this and last year's plantings in sod, where the rows were in soy beans 
last year I ran the spreader, "a round" to each row, sprinkling alsike, red and 
ladino clovers over the top of the spreader. The stand is excellent. The purpose 
is to hold down the weeds on the tree row, enrich the soil and spread seed all over 
the field. 
In the -hickory-pecan, persimmon planting and in all the honey locust plantings 
in the meadows the rows were plowed up one to two years agoe Hence a new growth, 
mostly weeds, is established. Here I sowed these clovers around the edge of the 
mulch at each tree for the same purpose. The soil is so poor it'll hardly grow 
weedse I figure if I can get a stand of grass established until I can find time, 
money, and manure to feed the ground, I'll be just that much ahead. Saving a heavy 
outlay of cash at one time. 
The general farm program. Asparagus half off because of cold weather. Rasp- 
berries ruined by winter kill. Income from them two-thirds off. 
Blueberries: Our first planting now making their 5th years growth are really 
starting to grow, crop light, due to wet blooming season. We've given them two 
applications of sawdust manure. We bed heavy with sawdust and "clean out" before it 
. gets too manurish. Plus a heavy application of raw phosphate rock in the manure. 
The swamp planting of about 3/4 acre sowed to soybeans last year = I hoped to 
have a volunteer stand this summer. But the pheasants ‘ct all the beans last winter 
and the damned rabbits trimmed the berry plants to the ground. Here the same type 
of manure was applied on the row with the spreader running full tilt straddling the 
rowe So we sickled along each side of the berry row and mulched a foot on each side 
with half composted leaves. Later scythed the whole patch. 
