Mr. Reed: The question was asked yesterday as to whether it 

 could not be overcome in this latitude. 



Dh. Waite: That nobody knows. The soils east and south of 

 Washington are all acid^ and the conditions are wrong for rosette. The 

 soils have no tendency to chlorosis. They are, in fact, antichlorotic. 

 Theoretically you could get the rosette conditions in the Piedmont 

 region, but a'ou are almost certain not to find them over this way. 



Now in the organization of the Bureau of Plant Industry there are 

 at least two niiiu offices where nut problems would 'be studied; in the 

 Division of Hortieultural and Pomological Investigations and in my 

 office, where tlie diseases are studied. Remember, also, that the insect 

 pests are studied in the liureau of Entomology; they have experi- 

 mented quite extensively with pec.in insect pests, and have the organ- 

 ization to handle sue]i ])ests. Of course there is a Bureau of Mar- 

 kets and the Office of Soil Fertility in the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 which liandle the pecan, incidental to tlie other studies. 



Mk. Bixby: I would like to ask Dr. Waite a question. The as- 

 sociation has s])ent a good deal of time in developing exact methods of 

 measuring (ju.iutitatively the \arious eliaraeteristics of nuts which are 

 considered \;ihiabU'. and th;it study lias gi\en us methods of comparing 

 notes from year to year, comparing the same nut, and I have noticed 

 that it is (juite frequent th.it the kind of nut tliat is good one year, will 

 not I'.e so good the next year. To take an example, the Clark hickory, 

 which took the prize oiu' year, the next year fell so far down that it 

 would not lake any prize. Hut after a good deal of trouble I found 

 that l>y careful exa'ininatiou I could )>ick out from the nuts a few 

 which tested up as they did before. It occurred to me that a condi- 

 tion of that kind would be more likely to be due to difference in the soil 

 than in the fertility of the ]iollen. Dr. Waite has had more or less ex- 

 perience in noting the eti'eet of the pollen, and I woidd like to ask 

 if he thought this the cause of the difference in the nuts. 



\)h. Waite: I think it might be the cause for a lilth' difference, 

 l)ut we could aec-ount for the difft-rence by entirely dift'erent things. 

 By environment and other conditions. Take tlie apples grown in this 

 vicinity; 1 have observed that certain seasons fit certain varieties. This 

 year it was favorable for Ben Davis, and yet we have had a poor crop 

 of most varieties; the conditions were bad for the Winesap to set, but 

 yet the fruit is good. Every year and every da}' is different; and 

 jilants are subjected to these complications, and the yield, or the result 



