90 NUT CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES. 



MARKETING. 



The chinkapin is prepared for market by simply drying the nuts in the snn after 

 picking, to keep them from molding. Scalding, as recommended for the chestnut, 

 would lessen the ravages of the worms in the fruit. Prices received for the nuts are 

 stated by different correspondents to range from 25 cents per " gallon " to 10 and 20 

 cents per pound. One Tennessee dealer writes that he pays $4 per bushel for them 

 for shipment. 



NOTES FROM CORRESPONDENTS. 



A few notes relative to the abundance and value of the chinkapin in different 

 States are appended : 



PENNSYLVANIA. Davison Green wait, Chamber sburg: "Chinkapins grow along 

 the mountain. Some of them are very fine." 



MARYLAND. J. W. Kerr, Denton: "The chinkapin grows in moderate supply. I 

 find much variation in size and productiveness of trees. I have begun its cultivation 

 in a small way." 



VIRGINIA. C. A. Uber, Virginia Beach : " The chinkapin grows abundantly here. 

 It yields profusely and some bushes bear fine flavored, good-sized nuts. There are 

 some large trees, resembling chestnut, bearing a small bur with but one small nut a 

 true chinkapin. Of the tree chinkapin there is a specimen in Fairfax County, Va., 

 between Falls Church and the Little Falls." 



George W. Johnson, Manassas: "The chinkapin grows wild through the woods 

 and along the roads. It is very productive. It ripens the last of August and sells 

 at 5 cents per quart." (See pi. 15, figs. 3, 3a, 3b.) 



NORTH CAROLINA. F. L. Reynolds, Craters : " It grows in immense quantities. 

 Nuts sell for 10 cents per pound." 



M. S. Welland, Wilmington: "A great many are gathered and marketed from 

 here." 



TENNESSEE. J. H. H. Boyd, Cagle: "They are very plentiful in places. I pay 

 $4 per bushel for them for shipping purposes." 



J. O. Grim sley, Otto: "There are two kinds, large and small. A considerable 

 quantity of the small ones grow wild. I know of two trees of the large ones. They 

 seem to be a hybrid with the chestnut. It has the size (in tree and nut) of the chest- 

 nut and quality peculiar to the chinkapin." (See pi. 15, figs. 5-7.) 



The specimens furnished show it to closely resemble the chinkapin in leaf and in 

 flavor of the nut, but the fruiting habit is that of the chestnut. 



John C. Chilton, Otto : " Chinkapins grow in quantity here. I have three bushes 

 of a nut I never saw anywhere else. It just commenced bearing. It seems to be a 

 cross between the chinkapin and the chestnut. I have noticed it carefully, and, as it 

 is surrounded by both chinkapins and chestnuts, I can readily see the difference in 

 growth, bark, leaf, etc. I find it sweeter than any chestnut I have tried, with a slight 

 flavor of the chinkapin. It gets hard slower than either of them. I have not so far 

 found a worm in any of them. I discovered these bushes when clearing land, and pre- 

 served them. I have cultivated them the past season, and will continue to do so, as 

 I find them much improved by it. There are four of the trees but only two roots. 

 Three of them are from one root. It must have been burned or cut off some years 

 ago. They are not more than 4 inches in diameter and 12 to 15 feet high. Since I 

 became interested in watching this nut I have learned from J. O. Grimsley that some- 

 thing of the same kind is growing on his father-in-law's place, and I have heard of one 

 other, about 5 miles from here, that was cut down in the clearing." 



MISSOURI. Addison D. Smith, Cassville: "There is a large quantity of chinka- 

 pins here. The nuts are dried in the sun or otherwise to keep the worms from eating 



