re planted in 60
ft. rows with a chestnut tree every 30 ft. Here, three rounds were made
with the plow and disk and the ground was manured before the trees were
planted. After planting one shovelful of night soil, or two or three
shovelfuls of cured slaughter house tankage, were applied to each tree.
The rows were kept clean until June and then sowed to soy beans.
Sufficient manure was available to make it possible to complete a manure
mulch around these trees. The field where the hickory and pecans are to
go has the tree rows plowed, manured and soy beaned ready for planting.
We plan to use the same method in future plantings.

Notes from the New Jersey Section of the Northern Nut Growers
Association

MRS. ALAN R. BUCKWALTER

(As a suggestion to some other State Vice-Presidents the editors print
parts of a letter from Mrs. Buckwalter whose husband was long a valued
and active member of the N. N. G. A.

"After receiving the annual report I sent reply post cards to each of
the members in New Jersey. I received answers from about one-third of
them and have assembled some of their reports and questions to send you,
along with a few notes about our orchard.")

Wm. M. Daugherty of Princeton reports that his three hundred
ten-year-old black walnut trees had a fine set of nuts this spring.
However, a hail storm in midsummer stripped the trees of both leaves and
nuts.

From Saddle River, Dr. Harold Blake reports that his black walnuts are
doing well, but a late spring frost killed the catkins on the Cosford,
Medium Long and Italian Red filberts. Mr. Blake suggests a theory of
bark rot and asks the opinion of other nut growers. He noticed that in
several instances of bark rot on Thomas and Stambaugh black walnuts the
diameter of the scion was larger than that of the stock. He concludes
that the scion was taken from a faster growing tree than the one that
was used for the stock and that the so-called bark rot is cambium rot
due to the fact that the smaller stock does not completely feed the
cells of the naturally faster growing section. Dr. Blake therefore
suggests more study of the compatibility of scion to stock, especially
in regard to growth and bearing. He notes that in fruit trees the root
stock is of importance in this regard and it may be that the variance in
reports from different localities on black walnuts and other nut trees
may be due to the difference in root stock as well as climate and soil
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