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seems as if there might have been something lacking in the form of 

 our invitation. 



Some light is thrown on this problem when we consider by states the 

 percentage of correspondents who failed to send nuts. It was much 

 greater in the southern states. For instance out of 119 writers from 

 Tennessee 59, or almost exactly 50% failed to send nuts. Whereas out 

 of 133 writers from Ohio only 11%, out of 123 from Illinois only 10%, 

 and out of 22 writers from Iowa only 4<i%, failed. This held good for 

 tlie other states. In a general way the farther south the larger the 

 percentage of failure. Georgia 40%, Alabama, 35%, Mississippi 33%, 

 Kentucky 29%, Arkansas 25%, Virginia 23%, Pennsylvania 20%, W. 

 Virginia, 19%, Missouri 16%, South Carolina 11%, Indiana 13%, 

 INIichigan 7%, Maryland 6%. 



Of the 1209 writers 460, or 38% were women. There was a slight 

 preponderance of women writers from the southern states. 



Of the 1229 black walnut specimens received 253, or 20%, were set 

 aside for further consideration. These 253 were further reduced to 87 

 and submitted to the judging committee which reduced them to K). 

 The 10 were tested by Mr. Bixby's methods and prizes were awarded 

 to 23, a little less than 2% of the total number received. It was a dif- 

 ficult matter to reach this conclusion and there can be no doubt that a 

 number of nuts with valuable characteristics received no prize. I 

 should say that nearly all the nuts reserved for consideration, viz. 253, 

 deserve honorable mention and a list of them sliould be published. 



All the nuts that were given consideration in the preliminary in- 

 spection, but not judged important enough to be submitted to the 

 judging committee, as well as those submitted to this committee but 

 rejected by them, were turned over to the Dept. of Agriculture at 

 Washins;ton. I am informed that these have been examined there 

 and that several of them are to be experimentally propagated by the 

 Department. 



Ohio took 6 prizes, Illinois and Iowa 4 each, Kentucky 3, Vir- 

 ginia and Indiana 2 ach, North Carolina and Pennsylvania 1 each. 



Iowa was far ahead in the percentage of nut receiving consider- 

 ation, by my standards, and the percentage of prizes won although the 



