ynn which was quite encouraging, and from his
point of view it is. He is on high, hilly land, where he has no pecan
trees, and he has been able to get nuts considerably sooner by
top-working these dryland hickories--the mocker nut, or "bull nut," as
it is known down there--and so far he is getting very satisfactory
crops. But it is the consensus of opinion over the entire South, so far
as I have observed it, that where there are pecan trees suitable for
top-working, they answer much better, and the final outcome is very much
more satisfactory with pecan on pecan than with pecan on hickory. Now,
with pecan on _Hicoria aquatica_, which Prof. Hutt spoke of, I can cite
you one instance which is very interesting south of Morgan City,
Louisiana. Mr. Frank Beadle, I believe, was the name, top-worked a
number of trees that were standing in water, and he also top-worked some
that he had transplanted from the wet bottom to higher land. Those that
were transplanted lived and bore nuts for quite a number of years. The
last I knew they were bearing quite satisfactory crops, but those that
were allowed to remain in the standing water died very shortly after the
pecan top began to develop. The entire tree died.

THE PRESIDENT: That is, the pecan top killed the native right in its own
habitat.

MR. C A. REED: That's right.

DR. STABLER: How about the acidity of the soil on that higher land? Was
that tested?

MR. C. A. REED: Well, there would be so very little difference in the
level of the soil that I imagine the acidity would be about the same.
When I said "high land" I meant land that wasn't over-flowed.

DR. STABLER: Oh, yes.

THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Reed, you made the qualified statement awhile ago
that where a man had a choice between hickory and pecan stock for
top-working, he should take the pecan. Now, in the North there are
magnificent stands of native hickory--the Appalachians are full of it
from end to end. Would you advise him not to bother with that?

MR. C. A. REED: There is another question that enters there. I don't
believe that you can grow good pecans on hickory stocks on uplands where
there is not moisture enough in the soil to grow good pecans on pecan
stocks. It takes moisture to make pecans, and if there isn't enough in
the upland soil to grow pecan trees on pecan roots I don't believe there
is any evidence to indicate that you can get them on hickory roots.

MR. LITTLEPAGE: Mr. President, the hickory only gro