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]\Ir. Weber: Kernels of black walnut seedlings last .year sold in 

 Cincinnati for $1.50 a pound. 



The Secretary: For uncracked black walnuts the grocer pays 

 about $1.50 a bushel. 



Mr. Reed: There is now a hand-power machine made at Harris- 

 burg that is proving to be quite satisfactory in cracking black walnuts. 

 I understood that the manufacturer* was to be here. 



Mr. Green: I would like to ask Mr. O'Dell what percentage of 

 the kernels he gets. 



Mr. O'Dell: It depends considerably upon the locality. We do 

 not attempt to obtain whole kernels, or even whole halves. We have 

 to sift them in order to remove the fine particles. 



j\Ir. Green: Do you utilize that product in any way? An ice 

 cream manufacturer told me that the most satisfactory way he found 

 of imparting black walnut flavor to the cream was to use small particles 

 of kernel. 



Mr. O'Dell: It usually contains too much dirt and too many small 

 particles for sucli use, and is only good for chicken feed. It would 

 bring about 3c a pound. 



]\Ir. Reed: You could doubtless get a good grade of oil out of it, 

 but sucli an oil would probably be more expensive than other oils. 



Mr. Barton: After the Thomas black walnut tree comes into 

 fairly good bearing, how large a crop should one have.^ 



Mr. Reed: There is really no basis for answering your question, 

 because no one I know of has any number of such trees unless Mr. 

 Snyder may have some. What is the best yield you have had from your 

 Thomas trees in Iowa.'' Have you some topworked trees? 



INIr. Snyder: My first grafted trees in Iowa were worked on 

 four-year-old stocks and they began bearing during the second year 

 following. There has been a gradual increase in yields from a hand- 

 full of nuts from the first crop up to about a half busliel to the tree at 

 the present time. 



Mr. Barton: How old are tliose trees now? 



Mr. Snyder: That work was first done about 14 years ago, the 

 roots are therefore 18 years old. 



Mr. Reed: Do they bear quite regularly? 



Mr. Snyder: As regularly as any walnut does. For instance, last 



*Mr. D. F. Clark, Box 524, Harrisburg, Pa. 



