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Date Harvest |
Year Harvest Period | Yield No. Trees Av. Yield Range in
Began in Days | in Lbs. Bearing per Tree Yields
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1941 8-14 51 | 44 63 .7 .1-6.9
1942 9- 3 41 | 30 46 .7 .1-5.2
1943 9- 9 26 | 357 108 3.3 .1-29.7
1944 8-15 44 | 716 136 5.3 .1-37.0
1945 8-18 34 | 3,025 208 14.6 .1-50.7
1946 8-20 41 | 1,447 173 8.4 .1-48.3
1947 8-26 43 | 6,615 188 35.2 .1-108.5
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[Footnote 3: 28 trees planted in 1926 and 16 planted in 1935, at spacing
of 25 to 40 feet.]

[Footnote 4: 274 trees planted in 1938 and 60 in 1940, at spacing of 25
feet on square.]

The yield's produced in the 1938 planting have been outstanding, as
indicated by the data in Table I, The trees began bearing when younger
and developed heavier production than those of the 1926 planting,
whether judged by age of tree or years of bearing. Many of the trees
have produced nuts of outstanding size, attractiveness, eating quality,
and keeping quality. There has been the usual degree of variation common
to any collection of seedlings, but the best trees in this planting have
been superior to any previously seen. Nut size has varied from 23 to
more than 100 to the pound; the color of the nuts has varied from light
tan to deep mahogany, and a few are nearly black. All have been of good
eating quality. The keeping quality has varied materially, some keeping
very well and others quite poorly.

Bur opening, has likewise varied so that at one extreme the nuts drop
entirely free from the burs on some trees and at the other extreme the
burs drop with the nuts in them and considerable work is required to
remove the nuts. It is out of this group of trees that the three
seedlings have been selected that the U. S. Department of Agriculture is
considering worthy of variety status. These have not yet been officially
released and no official description is yet available. The yield data
for these three selected Seedlings are given in Table II.

Table II. Yield data by years, of three seedlings tentatively proposed for
variety status, Phile