s of wide applicability.

This question of the blight on the hazel is a most important one for the
northern nut growers. Mr. Reed was telling me yesterday about a man from
California who went out near some city there and bought 10 acres of land
at six hundred dollars an acre, planted almonds and in a few years had
the place paid for and was making a good income, two or three thousand
dollars a year from his ten acres of almonds. We can do almost that in
the East, I believe, if we can cultivate the European hazel. If it were
not for this blight, we could have splendid crops of the hazel. If the
government would grant larger appropriations for nut culture
investigations it might enable us to find a way to control this disease.
Dr. Morris is breeding hazels, however, and hopes to get one which will
be immune.

PROFESSOR SMITH: It is a great pleasure to listen to a man who knows
what he is talking about. I figured out some years ago that I was going
to be a teacher and I decided that I would like to have a chestnut farm
also. I got along very nicely, planted my trees and then the chestnut
blight came along, and I regard the business, at least as to profits, as
in abeyance. We are in a period of particular danger from the
importation of foreign plants; we are bringing in perfectly
innocent-looking things from other countries which are causing us great
damage. I want to suggest to any one here who wants to plant an orchard,
to plant two kinds of trees. If my nut orchard had been planted with
something besides chestnuts, I would now have that something else. I
would suggest the possibility of having two things on the same
ground--say chestnuts and English walnuts--so if the planter finds he
cannot raise one he can still have the other. Then he will not be in the
same place I am with my chestnuts.

THE CHAIRMAN: I understand we have Mr. Fullerton of Long Island here,
and we would be pleased to have him give us some of his experiences.

[Illustration: DR. WILLIAM CHAMPION DEMING

Secretary-Treasurer of the Northern Nut Growers Association]

MR. FULLERTON: I just came in to see what you folks are doing and I
don't think I can pose as a nut expert. I live on an island that has a
great many varieties of nuts on it that have become native. We have
quite a plantation of hazelnuts; nobody knows who planted them. They are
used by nurserymen to fill orders. Also quite a plantation of magnolias
which came from the South a couple of