ng point, we'd reduce
that figure and say it would be $480,000.

I think to understand this state you have to give some consideration to
physiographic regions, and if you will bear with me I'd like to sketch
through these regions of the state, because they have a bearing on
production of black walnut. Here in the east we have the East Tennessee
Mountains, and proceeding westward we have the Great Valley of East
Tennessee. It goes all the way down to Chattanooga, up through Bristol,
on up through Virginia to Hagerstown, Maryland, all the way up to
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

We have fine soil, and we also have different kinds of shale in that
valley. Then we proceed westward. We come to the Cumberland Plateau, and
the elevation of this plateau is around 2,000 feet. It is higher than
this valley. Then we cross that and we reach this area (indicating on
map). That is what we call the Highland Rim. That is made up of
limestone soil of a different character, usually, than that in this East
Tennessee valley. That is what we term the Eastern Highland Rim, and
this around here (indicating) we term the Western Highland Rim. And this
red portion would be the Central Basin in which Nashville is situated.
Then you would travel through this central elevation, come up on the
Western Highland Rim, and then you come up here and you cross the
Tennessee River flowing north. Then you get into West Tennessee.

Now, that is coastal plain soil, and as you approach the Mississippi
River here you have a covering of what the Germans call loess, fine,
wind-blown material, silt loam. So that very sketchily gives you some
idea of the physiographic regions in this state.

Now you want to know where these black walnuts are grown. Well, up about
here (indicating the northeast) we have the towns of Greeneville and
Rogersville and Morristown and Jonesboro, the counties of Washington
County, Greene County, Hawkins County, say, ten counties; radiating
around those ten counties you have in the past had great quantities of
walnut kernels produced and sold. Now, go on down this valley past
Knoxville, and McMinn County (southeast) has some years produced heavy
crops of walnuts. So you have heavy production all through the valley.

There's another center, we might term it, of about six counties in this
central basin. But I don't want you to get the wrong impression, because
walnuts grow in almost any county in this state, but I am mentioning
these greater