t really sounded worse
than it was. Anyway, it confused our people, and probably that is about
the year in which we had this big shift from the production of walnut
kernels cracked out at home to a sale of uncracked walnuts to these
shelling plants.

Then another year that I think of (we always think of these as walnut
crop years) was 1945, and that year we got better prices, probably, than
ever before or since, and a lot of our country people were able to sell
hulled uncracked walnuts as high as $6 per hundred pounds.

We will continue to be interested in this industry, but, of course,
nowadays the wage scale is higher and money is not worth as much as it
was in the past, so it really seems to me that in order to get out this
crop we just have to try to make the price a little more attractive.

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President Davidson: "We are now going to hear from Mr. Shessler of Ohio,
on his method of grafting, and I wish to assure you that he knows what
he is talking about. He has done a lot of it.

Grafting Walnuts in Ohio

SYLVESTER SHESSLER, Genoa, Ohio

In 1934 the Ohio Nut Growers Association conducted a black walnut nut
contest. I read about it in the _Ohio Farmer_. As soon as the names of
the winners appeared in that publication, each owner was contacted for
some nuts from the prize winning trees. Answers were received from nine
of the 10 winners. I did not receive nuts from the Hoover tree. The
Brown nuts I planted came up in 1935 and the trees are now 22 feet high,
with spread of 22 feet, and are 27 Inches in circumference. The Tritten
prize nuts were planted in a fence row. These did not come up the first
year. The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted
potatoes. To my surprise the Tritten seedlings came up with the
potatoes. I let them grow and I now have five trees from these nuts. All
of these trees produce nuts which resemble the original Tritten nut and
have good cracking quality. One in particular fills out nicely, has a
very thin hull, and is a little larger than the original Tritten. I have
named it the Shessler. The Brown seedling trees also produce good nuts.
The seedling trees from the Cowle nuts produce nuts with rough shells.

Following my nut planting project I began to collect scions from all of
the original trees. Mr. Homer Jacobs, of Kent, Ohio, supplied me with
scions from the Tritten tree. The next year Mr. Jacobs asked me to se