4- NEWS-LETTER MICHIGAN NUT GROWERS ASSOCIATION 
News of your asAaciation- 
(You may expect this News-Letter only from time to time, and before important dates and times of the year.) 
EXTRA COPIES - If you can use some extra copies of this little folder, to hand out, 
or wish to save, kindly feel free to ask for them. 
N NG A HAS RECIEVED NEARLY 3,500 INQUIRIES TO “SUB-ZERO” ENG- 
lish walnuts, brought to the attention of the potential and eager public, by the 
October, 1952, FARM JOURNAL article on hardy Carpathian English walnuts and 
a picture of the same tree, that adorns the cover of this issue. 
REV. PAUL C. CRATH DIED LAST CHRISTMAS DAY - In an attempt to 
contact Rev. Crath, Sec’y Barlow learned thru Mc Carthy & Mc Carthy, Toronto 
Barristers, that Rev. Crath died last December 25th. His efforts in introducing 
the Carpathian English walnut into this country is well known to all of us. He had 
offered to come to Michigan and speak to our group, and we were planning on 
hearing him this summer. He had been in failing health. 
FIELD DAY AND PICNIC TO BE HELD SUNDAY, AUGUST 2ND - 
At Mr. Lemke’s 20-acre Nut Orchard at Washington, Michigan, north of Detroit. 
SEVERAL MIMEOGRAPHED LEAF-LETS NOW AVAILABLE - 
The following leaf-lets may be had for the asking from Sec’y Barlow : 
“MINUTES OF THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING.” 
“MY CARPATHIAN WALNUT GROVE,” by Lee Somers. 
(Care & Culture from seed nuts to bearing trees. ) 
“CARE AND STORAGE OF SEED NUTS.” 
February, 1953 
GQuenrcoats - 
It is a fact, English walnut grafts made in the spring are apt to be harmed the most 
during the first winter. The soft, rapid growth suffers the most, usually the tip ends. 
To minimize this difficulty, we usually ‘“‘pinch out” the tender tips on the rank growing 
new grafts during the last week in August. This helps harden all buds on the new 
growth. It is rare to see them send out more new growth after that date. 
If you have tramped thru the woods much in the winter, you have stumbled on black 
raspberry vines and raised the tip ends that were under the snow, and found them often 
fully leaved out, and green. We all know the value of a snow covering to wheat and 
clover, as well as other crops. Early travelers in this country wore several thicknesses 
of brown paper tucked under their coats, across their chests, to break the wind and 
keep them warm. Wind-breaks are valuable protectors, too. 
When we have newly established a special variety of English walnut we are very 
anxious that it should survive the first winter. Invariably, in early December, we wrap 
paper around the stock a few inches below the union, and up onto the graft quite a way, 
leaving six or more inches of the tips exposed. The wrappings are tied on with binder 
twine in several places. A dozen or more sheets of newspaper can be tied on, merely as 
a shield, or wind-breaker, and covered with a piece of black building paper. Whether 
the top of the black paper is left open, or turned down in some way, to shed water, 
seems to make little difference. It is the overcoat, the wind-break, that saves the 
graft. We have used some regular tree wrapping tape this winter, covering the area 
about the union with about three thicknesses. The protection is removed early, soon 
after March 15th. 
Try these methods to protecs your valuable grafts the first winter - it pays - 
and you will sleep better, when it is zero outside, and the wind is howling! 
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