Ill 



He has done wonderful things for its advancement and especially 

 for the advancement of the interests of the Northern Nut Growers 

 Association. 



Mr. Bixby : While Dean Mann was speaking the thought 

 came to me, how could we better co-operate with the Department 

 of Forestry? I think the work of the Nut Growers Association, 

 which is particularly interested in the use of nut trees for orchards, 

 and that of the Department of Forestry, which looks upon them 

 particularly as producers of timber, could be very closely allied. The 

 thought came to me, could not we right here work out some prac- 

 tical suggestion whereby we two could co-operate? I would like to 

 ask Dean Mann what nut trees they are planting for forest purposes. 



Dean Mann : We have done very little. We have, at our ex- 

 periment station at Chittenango, done some work with the English 

 walnuts. This particularly hardy specimen that I have in my own 

 back yard — I have two, one of them is growing very slowly — are 

 from our experiment station. We have really had so much to do 

 in the way of popular education in New York State in the timber 

 products, that we are merely, as they say in the South, fixing to 

 begin with other things. That is the only species with which we 

 have made an actual start. There is this however : what can forest- 

 ers, horticulturists and nut enthusiasts do to supply the place of the 

 American chestnut? I really came here as a seeker after truth on 

 this particular phase. You men probably know more about it than 

 I. What can we produce? Is there any hybrid which can be in- 

 troduced into this country which will take the place of the American 

 chestnut ? 



Mr. Bixby : In reply to that I would say that I have hundreds 

 of seedlings of the Chinese chestnut on which the blight has been 

 working for years and has not destroyed them. I would be very 

 glad to send them to the College of Forestry and let you try them. 



Dean Mann : They will be planted with extreme care and a 

 barbed wire put around them. 



Mr. Bixby : There is another thing, the rough shell Japanese 

 walnut, so-called, which is really a butternut hybrid. I have planted 

 it and it is growing at a tremendous rate, even faster than the 

 Japanese walnut. I expect to get a lot of those nuts this year and I 

 wondered how the College of Forestry would like to try some of 

 them. 



Dean Mann : I would be delighted. 



Mr. Bixby : Then there is one other nut the big shell bark 

 hickory which is a native of the Mississippi Valley, which has been 

 planted in Pennsylvania and up in Lockport, New York. It grows 

 finely, it bears early, and I think that it might be worth trying. 



