planted out in such rough land and
kept waiting there for years until the day of possible utilization.

Lastly, I wish to emphasize one more possible crop insurance tree for
the man who is planting nuts on land difficult of cultivation, or
entirely untillable, and that is the persimmon. I have paid my respects
above to the tilled crops and the pastured pig for the arable land, and
for the unarable land I would still emphasize the pig and give him other
sources of food to supplement pasture. Among these possible foods is the
persimmon which as yet has been little appreciated in an extensive way,
although hundreds of thousands of men know it is highly prized forage
and of considerable fattening value. It has a crop insurance virtue,
however, other than its acceptability as pig feed. That is the hardiness
of the tree and the ease of establishing it. In my pasture lot the
Angora goat, even when pushed with hunger, has not touched persimmon
wood or leaves. The same is practically true of the black walnut and of
the butternut. This fact is one of great importance, because it means
that we can keep rough land in pastures, even goat pasture, during the
period when we are planting out tall-headed nut trees of almost any
variety, and at the same time have a perfect stand of two kinds of crop
insurance trees coming along, namely, walnuts and persimmons.

In this connection it is desirable to point out the relation of this
recommendation to the actual practice in nut growing regions of Europe.
They do not plant a little two or three foot tree. They plant an eight
or nine-foot tree often so slight it can not hold itself up, and is kept
in place by one or two stiff poles. This tall-headed fellow stands out
in the middle of the wheat field, the vineyard, the hay field, the goat
pasture, the cow pasture, with its head entirely out of reach of the
pasturing animal, its trunk protected by one or two stout sticks, and in
due time it takes hold. With the trees properly developed in the
nursery, I know of no reason why the same practice cannot prevail here,
and I have at least one Busseron pecan tree that has gone safely through
the first summer of it.

The practice of one pecan grower in Texas, reported in the Nut Journal,
is suggestive of a crop insurance practice capable of wide use in the
North, namely, planting of filler trees of quick-yielding varieties.
There is no reason why the northern nut trees might not be planted 40,
60, or