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 The native persimmons, as they sprang up in his fields, were grafted to a productive variety of native American persimmon, and in September when I saw them, the trees were bending down with unripe fruit. He had a large number of water oaks scattered about the place, and had been planting them systematically for years.

As an exhibit at the county fair he had printed slips numbering twenty-six crops which were growing either wild or cultivated on his place. Some he said were of small value, but they were there.

He had three hundred acres of fenced pasture. One-quarter of it was swamp. Some was hopeless-looking sand which Mr. Lombard said was "hardly worth the hole it filled up in the