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and they will not ^row, and my ad vicMj would bu to tako care of 

 those nuts and keep them from drying, and keep them as nearly 

 as possible as they were when you first picked them off from 

 the tree. It will do no harm to dry them so the shuck on the 

 outside is dry, but if the nuts dry I never have been able to 

 grow them 



Pres. Underwood: As I understand it, that is all Mr. Cum- 

 mins is claiming. He is afraid the nuts will mould. They will 

 sometimes mould if not dried in the shuck. He does not mean 

 to dry the meat in the nut; drying the shuck is sutticient. 



Mr. Wyman Elliot: I have had some experience in growing 

 the black walnut in earlier days. My method was to gather the 

 nuts and spread them on the ground, on a level piece of ground, 

 and cover them about two inches deep ; let them lie until 

 December before planting, which would be just before the 

 ground freezes up. Then I would just cover them over with 

 soil, and I never had any trouble. Mr. Cummins says they are 

 a tree that is easily transplanted. They are not after the first 

 or second year planting. They run a tap root right down. The 

 Minnesota black walnut is very much hardier than they are in 

 Illinois. Indiana and Ohio. I have tried them from different 

 sections, and I have found those grown in the Southern states a 

 great deal more tender than our native walnut. 



Mr. E. H. S. Dartt: I have had some experience with the 

 black walnut. I can corroborate what Mr. Elliot has said in 

 regard to the difficulty of transplanting after attaining a little 

 size, but his last statement I will have to go back on. I have a 

 tree, the nut of which was grown in Kansas, transplanted to 

 Wisconsin and from there transplanted to Minnesota, and it is 

 to-day the nicest tree in the lower section of the state, a foot or 

 more in diameter and just as hardy as any black walnut I ever 

 saw. That would seem to indicate that whether the nut was 

 grown in Kansas or Wisconsin, it would make no difference in 

 the hardiness of the tree. 



Mr. A. J. Philips (Wisconsin): I think it was acclimated in 

 Wisconsin. (Laughter. ) 



Mr. Gardner: I wish to state that if you wish to transplant 

 black walnut trees, when you set them out. no matter whether 

 they are one year of age or more, just as soon as you jiiant them 

 out saw off the tops close to the ground, and I think you will 

 have success. I always cut the top off, and if the tree is two 

 or three years old, I get a straight shoot the first year, and get 

 a straight tree four feet high. If you leave the top on. it makes 



