letter that came this week from J. W. Killen, of
Felton, Md., said he had found filberts to be about as unprofitable a
nut, as any he could have grown.

We will spend a few minutes now running over the pecan situation. We can
hardly omit it altogether because there are so many people in the
northern states who are interested in the pecan in a financial way. The
chart before us shows first the native area. This part here is the
portion of the United States in which the pecan is a native. You notice
how far upward it extends, almost to Terre Haute, Indiana, and across
southern Indiana along the Ohio River, and it is right in here, about
where the pencil indicates that some of our best northern varieties have
originated. Mr. Littlepage and W. C. Reed and others have shown us nuts
over in the Court House that originated there. The Busseron and the
Indiana are the two most northern. They are a little way north of
Vincennes. No varieties so far of any merit have originated in Illinois.
While we have the map of Illinois before us, I would like to point out
the place where Mr. Riehl originated the variety of chestnut we referred
to some time ago. Down in more southern Illinois is where we find Mr.
Endicott. This darkened area along the southeastern part of the United
States, and extending away up into Virginia, shows the area to which the
pecan has been planted with more or less success. This area extending
down over the Piedmont and up into Virginia and West Virginia, is the
mountain area to which the pecan is not adapted. You never find pecans
on the uplands. This thick, heavy area shows the territory within which
the pecan has been most extensively planted. It is not common down in
southern Florida. You notice, too, that over here in Texas there have
been very few orchards planted to pecans. North of these shaded areas,
anywhere up in Ohio or Pennsylvania or New York, the pecan has not shown
any adaptability or has not shown sufficient adaptability to justify
commercial planting. Whatever planting of pecans is done in the area
north of the shaded portions there must be considered as experimental.

The Chairman: The southern part of Texas is actually in the tropical
zone. It would be interesting to know if we have the pecan actually
growing in the tropics.

Mr. Reed: We have more or less vague reports that it is growing down
near Brownsville. I think Mr. Littlepage told us the other day of a
friend of his who is planting pe