n saying that a fair percentage of the farmers are
taking hold of it. This is because of the fact that the San Jose scale
has practically destroyed all the old apple trees around the farm
buildings, and, not wishing to have the building denuded of the
customary shade and fruit, nut trees are planted instead. This is in
reality the practice prevalent in France and Germany where they utilize
every foot of ground to profitable account.

The life of an apple tree is from fifty to sixty years whereas a walnut
tree is just in its prime at that age and destined to live for hundreds
of years afterwards. Then again the ravages of the chestnut tree blight
are destroying the cultivated paragons just as freely as the chestnuts
in the forests, which in a few years will be things of the past, thus
giving still more room for walnut and other nut trees.

The Northern Nut Growers Association was organized for a grand and noble
purpose, that is to stand together shoulder to shoulder to devise ways
and means to bring nut culture to a grand and glorious success.

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Mr. Corsan: The temperature Mr. Rush spoke of rather surprises me. Last
year at Toronto it did not fall lower than 9 degrees below zero. We had
summer almost until New Year's and then a very severe winter until
April. I didn't notice any evergreen trees killed, but at Detroit, the
Bronx and various other places, I never saw a winter so disastrous for
killing evergreens.

The Chairman: Not only that but nurserymen all over eastern New England
said they suffered greater losses last winter than ever before.

Prof. Smith: I would like to ask Mr. Rush if it would be possible to cut
scions by December 1st, so as to escape danger from such great freezes.

Mr. Rush: I really have little experience in keeping scions. This fall I
put some in the moist cold earth in the cellar. I think the experiment
will be successful because I have known chestnut scions cut in the fall,
to be kept under leaves in the grove till spring.

Prof. Smith: I should like to suggest that you try the following
experiment; bury them, wrapped up in a gunny-sack or something, entirely
underground where they will have absolute moisture and be shut away from
the air. I have found that very successful.

Mr. Rush: Sometimes the trouble is they get too moist.

The Chairman: There is a principle here, and we had better keep down to
principles as much as we can. That princip