if any, were ever cracked.

That has been somewhat of a discussion, among feed producers especially,
recently, as to whether or not it would be profitable to grind those
seeds in order to get the protein and fats that the seed has. There
isn't a very high percentage of food in the seed itself, but you do get
a little more protein and a little more fat if you grind the seed
itself.

We have found in storage that weevils get in these seeds, but the weevil
doesn't destroy the carbohydrates, and the weevil will only pierce the
seed and make a hole in it. Then the intestinal juices of a cow will go
in through this hole and they can digest the seed. That is something
that comes along with storage.

I'd like to give you just something briefly on what the Dairy Department
of Alabama Polytechnic found out about the general value of these pods.
They found that honeylocust pods could be substituted in a dairy ration
for oats, pound for pound. Now, that means that if you can get a high
yield of honeylocust pods and substitute it in a dairy ration for oats
that you just about have half of the grain problem solved.

I'd like then to follow that up to give you the average yields. Before I
give you these average yields I'd also like to bring out this fact about
the Calhoun and the Millwood honeylocust. Those trees are very peculiar
in their habits of bearing. One year they will bear a heavy crop. The
next year they will bear scarcely anything. They are definitely
alternate bearing, and I think that alternate bearing has a
physiological background behind it. How We can eliminate that
physiological reaction is something else. But the years that the trees
are heavily loaded with the fruit the amount of carbohydrates that it
draws from the tree is so great that the tree doesn't have enough
carbohydrates left to produce fruit the next year. I think it is the
carbon-nitrogen ratio from the physiological standpoint, and, of course,
if that is the case, then there is a possibility that you could
eliminate or correct that carbon-nitrogen ratio by thinning during the
blooming period. But when you see these results I think that you will
agree that honeylocust has a place, even if they do bear only every
other year.

In our planting we have some trees that will bear this year. Next year
they won't bear, but their sister trees will bear. So we have pods every
year from some of the trees. Over a period of five years, during which
these trees