ing about agricultural or horticultural work
knows that we have winter and floods and everything else to contend
with.

The Chairman: Someone might tell us about failures they happen to know
of in promotion schemes.

Mr. Smith: I would like to ask if Mr. Littlepage isn't going to open up
that barrel of actual facts that he has about yields?

Mr. Littlepage: Mr. President, I didn't know that I had a whole barrel
of actual facts. When I started in several years ago a barrel wouldn't
have held all of them, but I think that now I could put the actual facts
in a thimble. I've got several barrels of good pecans, however, I'd like
to open up and let Mr. Smith sample if he wants to.

The Chairman: Let's hear about frauds from someone who knows how the
land was managed and how the trees were managed and how it actually
occurred.

Mr. Van Duzee: Mr. President, I feel that I ought to say something,
first in commendation of the paper itself. It is a question how far we,
as an Association, are responsible for the care of our fellowmen, but at
this period when the industry is new, I feel that it is a very
legitimate thing for us to do a little work to try and prevent these
people from preying upon our fellowmen. The president remarked this
morning that something was an evidence of the tremendous waste in
Nature. It is true, Nature, in building a forest, wastes a vast amount
of time and energy. These people who are preying upon the nut industry
today find as their victims the weaklings which Nature buries in the
forest. Those things are incidental and we must expect them, but I feel
that a paper of this kind, at this time, is a very valuable thing and I
hope it will receive wide publication. We cannot say too much to
discourage this sort of thing. Now, to respond, in a measure, to the
President's request for actual facts, I am confronted with this
proposition, that some of the men who have made the greatest failures
are men who have done so through ignorance. They are honest men, they
are personal friends of mine. I don't care to go too much into details,
because they are just as sorry today as I am, but I have seen this done.
I have seen hundreds of acres of nut orchards in the South planted with
the culls from nurseries bought at a very low figure. I have seen these
trees neglected absolutely, not in one case but in many cases. I have
seen the weeds as high as the trees at the time when a telegram was
received by the the local