n?

Mr. Moore: This one you don't harvest at all. The cow picks them up off
the ground.

A Member: If you had a few hundred trees, would these pods all come on
at one time, or you mentioned having somebody shake them off. Can you
pick them all up at one time?

Mr. Moore: Yes, you can shake them all off at one time, rake them all up
with the rake, take a pitchfork rake, carry them to the barn and throw
them in storage in a dry place. You don't have to worry about weevils.

A Member: Store them like hay?

Mr. Moore: Hay or corn. I have some that have been stored for three
years, and the weevil gets into the seed, but it doesn't seem to affect
it. My cattle like three-year-old pods as well as the new ones--well,
they like them better.

Mr. Weber: Do the pods heat up?

Mr. Moore: They won't heat up, if they aren't green.

A Member: What about the protein content?

Mr. Moore: I will give you the analysis for that, the complete analysis
of ground honeylocust pods. That might be interesting. Moisture content,
12.47. Ash, 3.14. Crude protein, 8.58. Now, the crude protein has run as
high as 14 per cent. I want to bring that out. This was pods collected
in the wild, and this was a sample that the State Chemist ran for us on
that. Fats 2.12. Fiber, 17.73. Carbohydrates total 55.96.

President Davidson: I am afraid we will have to close this if we are to
get on at all. That's the most authoritative information we have ever
had, I think, in this Association about honeylocust. I am sure we have
been enjoying it and have been benefited by it immensely.

On the possibilities of filbert growing in Virginia, Dr. Overholser will
now give you a talk.

[Footnote 18: According to botanical authorities, the honey locust is
polygamo-dioecious; that is, it generally has most of its male flowers
on one tree and most of the female flowers on another tree, but the
trees are not 100 per cent pure in this sex division. In my personal
observations of flowers on grafted trees, including Millwood and Calhoun
and scores of seedlings, both "male" and "female," I never found any
pollen produced in flowers of the "female" trees, but nearly all "male"
trees in the Tennessee Valley will have occasional catkins with one or
more perfect flowers near their terminal ends (the basal flowers being
staminate on the same catkin.) The functionally perfect flowers on such
"male" trees have been observed to set from one to many pods in certain
years, but