roblem is solved, and the black walnut has come into the competition.

This variety was discovered by Henry Stabler, and I named it after him.
Perhaps one out of every ten of these nuts furnishes a whole, solid,
undivided kernel. The other walnut is the ordinary field walnut that has
little commercial value for the reason that you can't get the kernels
out. It wouldn't make any difference if the nuts grew as big as pumpkins
and a million of them on a tree if you couldn't get the meat out of
them. I suppose no one will question that the black walnut will grow and
bear almost anywhere. It is a weed tree in this part of the country. On
President Smith's farm last year I saw them growing everywhere. They
grow and bear all over the fields. And, as I said, the question of
propagation is rather simple. I think the great trouble we are up
against on the farm in America is labor, and that is because you cannot
afford to pay good labor. You want a superabundance of laborers in the
summer time for two or three months, and expect them to loaf all winter.
The farm proposition isn't a profitable one, very largely because of the
question of labor, and the farmers of this country must produce
something profitable enough to enable them to hire and pay high-grade
labor the year round, or they will go broke. They must raise such crops
as Alfalfa that they can feed to their dairy cattle, and tree crops that
they can use their labor on in the winter time. Nine men are leaving the
farm today for every one going there. If you don't believe it, read the
census statistics. The reason is labor and because you can't afford to
pay it. I don't think there is any profit in selling the black walnut as
a nut, but there will be profit in gathering that nut, storing it, and,
when your farm crops are all in and you are ready to discharge the
labor, put up an ordinary cheap cracking shed and let them crack the
nuts for you, and sell the meats. That solves the question of what to do
with farm labor in the winter time. The walnuts return about ten pounds
of meat to a bushel, and a good cracker ought to crack from four to six
bushels of nuts a day. Suppose you get only twenty-five cents a pound
for the meats and your men crack only three bushels a day, each there is
$7.50 a day coming in from each cracker, and, besides, you have made a
valuable employment for your labor through the winter, and you can
afford to pay them for their work. That is why I say the bl