"That's right, Joe," said his wife. "Bob showed me the same article. The farm averaged over $2000 per acre and I think it would be a good idea to buy the outfit next year, Joe. The same as our growing of vegetables under glass. I'm very much interested in growing vegetables out of season--there isn't much work to do in winter and we can easily take care of them, and in that way we may find we could make more money on less ground than by doing general farming." "Well, it's worth looking into," said her husband. "All of our things so far have panned out pretty good and I'm not willing to pass up anything now without giving it a thorough investigation. By the way, Bettie, don't you think we ought to put an orchard on 'Old Round Top?' That's one field we can't very well plow." "What had you thought of planting, Joe?" "I thought peaches would be a good crop there--peaches ought to do well on the south slope." "Well, you know a peach orchard doesn't live very long and it's rather a fickle crop," she replied. "I tell you what I was thinking of, Uncle Joe," said Bob. "What's that?" asked his uncle. "Planting it with peaches with black walnut trees in between." "What do you want with black walnuts?" asked Bob's uncle. "Well, when the trees are grown, you have the walnuts, and when the trees get older black walnut timber, which is very valuable. A hill such as Round Top that isn't much good for anything else, would raise good black walnut timber. Of course, you'd have to dynamite the holes good and deep where you put the trees, so they'd have no trouble getting good roots. Once they were well started, I don't think there'd be any trouble with them." "I hadn't thought of that, Bob," said his uncle, "but I guess we had better look into it. By the time the peach trees were dead, the walnut trees would have a good start. How many trees will it take to plant it?" "I figure if we took the whole twelve acres, it would require twelve hundred peach trees," said Bob. "But that would be a good many peach trees to take care of, Uncle Joe." "Yes, but we won't be building any concrete buildings by the time they begin bearing, so why not plant it all in peach trees with the black walnuts in between, as you say?" "I'll have Edith write to a grower to-night, if you wish, Joe, and find what the peaches will cost," said his wife. "How about the black walnuts?" asked Bob. "Shall we plant the trees or nuts?" "I think we had better plant nuts and let them grow themselves. We can stick a lot of them between the peach trees and, of course, the peach trees will be dead long before the walnuts get to be any size."