My wife, who is a very intelligent person, maintains that people who raise nuts, are. The only trouble with my wife’s theory is that she doesn’t take in enough territory. I claim that everyone connected with the nut industry is more than slightly off balance. Like this business of the government counting filberts.
A few years ago I received a letter from the Department of Agriculture saying that they were starting a program to forecast the size of the filbert crop, that my orchard was one of three hundred in the state selected to take part in the program, and would I cooperate? At the time I couldn’t see why the government would want to waste any money trying to predict the size of the filbert crop. After all, it only amounts to about 10,000 tons a year, an amount that is insignificant when compared to the amount imported, and comes only from the Willamette Valley in Oregon and the adjoining part of Washington. But if they wanted to do it, that was their business; so, in a weak moment, I said I’d cooperate.
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