ws about six or eight
weeks every summer, and the pecan grows all summer. I think that answers
the question.

PROF. HUTT: A case came up last year in the National Nut Growers'
Association that was quite interesting. Mr. Smithwick, of Americus,
Georgia, brought to the meeting and exhibited a number of varieties of
pecan grown on hickory--fourteen varieties, standard varieties, grafted
on a hickory tree, and they were remarkable for their small size. They
were remarkably small--smaller than ordinary, woods-grown seedling
pecans. There were Schleys and Delmas, and various other varieties that
you could recognize by the form of the nuts, but exceedingly small. I
believe Mr. Reed's point is the crux of the whole situation, that if you
have a good supply of moisture they will make nuts of a pretty fair
size, but unless the moisture supply is very large you get diminutive
nuts. These were matured in the South. The hickory is such a slow grower
in comparison with the pecan--that is, the common varieties--that it
can't keep up with the pecan top.

MR. C. A. REED: Some of the nuts from that tree were on exhibition where
you were this morning.

THE PRESIDENT: Then you have, practically, a dwarfing, with the dwarfing
manifesting itself in the fruit rather than in the wood.

MR. C. A. REED: It did in that one instance, but, on the other hand, we
have seen pecans grown on top-worked hickories that you could hardly
tell from typical specimens of pecans grown on pecan stocks.

THE PRESIDENT: Isn't the bitternut several times as rapid in growth as
the shagbark, or some others? That is, probably, one of the best stocks
for the hickories if one wishes to experiment.

MR. C. A. REED: AS Colonel Van Duzee said last night, "there are a lot
of things we don't know." This is one of them. I might quote a number of
men who are right here in this audience to convince you that we don't
any of us know much about nut culture today. I will quote Dr. Morris and
Mr. Littlepage. We were talking about hickory nut varieties in Dr.
Morris' office one night about the first of this year, when Mr.
Littlepage made the remark that "the man who didn't change his mind
every three years on nut culture didn't keep up with the game," and Dr.
Morris replied that he had changed his mind so much in the last five
years he had no respect for any man who believed what he said. Now, when
you can't believe Dr. Morris, Colonel Van Duzee, or Dr. Smith, what are
you goi