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Excerpt from Nuts for Profit: A Treatise on the Propagation and Cultivation of Nut-Bearing Trees Adapted to Successful Culture in the United States, With Extracts From Leading Authorities For many years there has been some interest in planting nut bearing trees, both for shade and nuts. And we occasionally find on old farms, from which the original timber had been cut, the pioneers had Spared the most valu able of the nut trees, consisting of Chestnut, Walnut, Shellbark and Pecan, which in succeeding years have yielded abundant cr0ps of toothsome nuts that have not only gladdened the hearts of the younger generation in their annual gatherings and helped to while away the long winter evenings at the farmer's home, but have also proven a most valuable source of revenue during seasons of other crop failures. From these individual trees many have been stimulated to increase their planting and establish orchards of selected varieties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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