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i^r.iding before eraeking llian llic wild blick walnuts, where every tree 

 hears nuts differing in size, as in ahnost every otlier quaHty. Figuring 

 50,000 pounds to the carh)ad it will take about eight carloads of wild 

 blaek walnuts to make one carload of kernels of the same weight. 

 More and more English walnuts and pecans are being sold in the form 

 of kernels, and bb^ck walnuts also will best be sold in kernels. These 

 can be canned in vacuum glass or metal cans, and the housewife will 

 use more nuts when she can get the shell-free meats with her favorite 

 cooking utensil, the can-opener. Confectioners and bakers will take 

 black walnut meats by the carload in preference to other nut meats 

 because they have more flavor. ;ind so "go further." 



The growing of black walnuts in a commercial w;iy will require 

 education, but already there is a growing interest. Several of the 

 large weekly pu'blications have, within the last couple of months, 

 carried full page, illustrated articles on black walnuts. One of these. 

 in a magazine of general circulation which is over half a million, with- 

 in a month resulted in almost one hundred letters asking for add'itional 

 information, which shows that a great many people want to know 

 more about the possibilities of black walnuts. This interest will 

 certainly increase w'hen profitable black walnut orcliards are actually 

 growing and paying good profits. Already men are putting- in blaek 

 walnut orchards or groves of several hundred acres, and' one such 

 planting of 1,600 acres is proposed, but it will be partly hardy pecans. 

 This shows rapid development into a real industry of miagnitude. 



Report of the Secretary. 



On March 1, 1923. the treasurer. Mr. ^\'. G. Bixby. handed over to 

 tlie secretary the funds and books of the association, saying that his 

 time had become so much taken up that he was able to give too little 

 of it to the duties of his office. Thus it became necessary for the 

 secretary to assume the functions of the treasurer as well. 



These functions w^ere, in the first place, the payment of the obliga- 

 tions of the association fromi the funds available. The funds availnble 

 for current expenses were not sufficient for the payment of these 

 obligations. The secretary therefore took it upon him.self to pay these 

 obligations with funds of the as.sociation put aside for other purposes. 

 These funds were money received from life membership payments 

 that had been deposited in the Litchfield Savings Society, as a sort 



