f its low quality. We don't like the
Stuart because it doesn't come into production until it reaches a
considerable age. We just simply will not have the Mahan, because it
doesn't fill. We do not like the Success because it has a tendency to
over-bear every other year and does not fill. We cannot use the
Squirrel's Delight which for ten years or so we had at the top of our
list, because a special strain of scab fungus came in and completely
wiped them out, and so on throughout the list of varieties that we have.

Well, these growers decided to take the matter into their hands and in
cooperation with the experiment station have been, during the past two
years, attempting to find some nuts which would be more desirable, and I
thought those of you who are in the walnut exploration work would be
interested in learning how this is worked out.

I don't suppose you can see this. It Is an entry blank for the grower.
Annual prizes of $50, $25, $15 and $10 are awarded. Ten awards are made
each year, and the ten winning growers this year will have their
particular nut automatically entered in a grand prize contest hoping
that some of those nuts will be worth naming, and if any should be worth
naming, after further study, naming and introducing, the grower will be
awarded a prize of $1,000.

Four of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, crackers are financing this work by putting
in $75 each annually. The college is cooperating in this respect, and
when I say the college, I also mean the Extension Division. The
Extension Director is pushing the matter and tells the county agents to
pay attention to these entry blanks when they come, and get as many
growers in each county to send in samples as possible.

The contest closes on November 25th. Those samples are sent to the
college, and in three or four days--and those of you in colleges will
recognize the Thanksgiving holiday--in three or four days' time those
nuts are cracked and evaluated and placed. Last year, the second year of
the contest, there were over 200 entries, and it was no small job to
finish in time to get them on display at the annual meeting and show of
the Oklahoma Pecan Growers Association in early December.

We are not content with the evaluation of the nut. It is just one phase
of successful production to have a nut which is satisfactory for
cracking and consumption; unless those trees are free from disease and
productive and otherwise satisfactory we could never think of
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