Additional copies Release: October 2, 1948 
mailed upon request 
PROGRESS REPORT ON AMERICA'S #1 TREE CROP FAR) 


LIBRARWLT 
HEADQUARTERS IN RESEARCH RECEIVED 
John We Hershey 
Re D. #1 
Uns; Department of Apri 
iculture 
Downingtown, Pa. = 
To Magazine and Radio Editors: This material is presented for the purpose 
of "making better living thru living things." Use it as you like it. 
Idle People Idle Money 
na ef ee oe Prosperity 
Idle Acres Tree Crops 
NURSERY 
NEW AND INTERESTING 
A limited number of USDA'S three new Chinese Chestnut varities. These three 
have been carefully selected for their high quality of nut and heavy bearing, Nanking, 
Kuling, Meiling. 
A few grafted trees of a timber type Chinese Chestnut with a record of good 
nuts and heavy bearer. 
Honey Locust; A few of a selected Penna.e variety "Schofer," much more hardy 
than Calhoun or Millwood. We believe these will solve the northern planting problem. 
We'll be glad to-supply any one with a trial tree or two while they laste A promis- 
ing sweet podded honey locust from Omaha, Nebr. One scion growing well, top-worked. 
This should be as hardy as the pioneers that settled that great state. 
A Burr Oak second year from transplanting, Srd from graft with several clusters 
of acorns. A couple grafted Chinquapin oak and Burr, 4 years old also bearing 
lightly. Now hold your hat if you're a believer in oaks bearing only when they're 
gray haired - 10 year Chinquapin oak seedling, 4 years from transplant, 12 ft. high 
with a few acorns. 
That Single Lobed Black Walnut. Yep, another has shown up in nuts from a mid- 
west orchard of mixed varieties. Much better nut than Stabler, nearly as large as 
Thomas, flavor, excellent or better, shell thin. Is it a tree or a sport? The 
owner is determined to find out. 
Mulberry, White: This new variety bore this summer. Comes in a little ahead 
of Downing, fruit a little small but as high flavored as the Hicks. As any know 
who are interested in mulberries, the Hicks is King in flavor. Tree as hardy as 
black walnut. . 
TREE BLACK BERRY: Four plants procured from northern Texas spring '47 guar- 
anteed hardy. Stood the long hard winter and now at 7 ft. are each bearing a hand- 
ful of berries. Unlike the acclaimed varieties, highly acid and sour,this fruit is 
sweet ~ about the size and looks of a dewberry. Supposed to grow 15 to 20 ft. high, 
bear 2 to 3 tons per acree Seems like a find. 
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CATS: Three of them that eat tomatoes and a heifer calf that sucks a mare. 
An arbor of grapes remarkably free of worms with four years of organic care, 
no sprays except one to repel beetle and about as much blight in tomatoes without 
spray this wet season as my neighbors who sprayed heavily. 
