the writer to believe that the proportion of hickory hybrids will
be much less than this. If, however, we assume it to be 1 in 100 and the
fact that among this years meritorious nuts hybrids are 4 out of 21 or 1
out of 5, we would calculate that the chances of getting meritorious
nuts out of hybrids is about 20 times as great as out of pure species.
We really have not sufficient data at present to attempt to make such
calculations yet the glimpse they give us of the promise of wonderful
results from the systematic production of hybrid varieties between
selected parents is most alluring.

The number of prizes awarded to Carya Dunbarii (Carya ovata x laciniosa)
shows a line of work of particular promise. We have plenty of good
shagbarks, Carya ovata, and now that he have really good shellbarks,
Carya laciniosa, of large size, fair cracking quality and good flavor
which we never had before, we have selected material for the production
of shagbark x shellbark hybrids, a class which has produced the Weiker
hickory, four of the 1929 contest prize hickories and some other
hickories of merit which have come to the attention of the writer during
the past two or three years. As we have a number of good northern
pecans we have also selected material for the production of pecan x
shellbark hybrids, a class which has produced the McAllister pecan. If
the 1929 contest does nothing more than to bring to light these fine
shellbarks it is worth all it cost.

The contest also has shown some mockernuts of large size and better
quality than ordinary but still not good enough to be in a class with
the shellbarks noted above. The number of years that we have been
testing hickories without getting good shellbarks leads us to hope that
we will eventually get good mockernuts.

The prize winning hickories are noted below:

Name and Address Species Points Prize Amount

Mrs. C. Lake, New Haven, Ind. ovata 68 1 $25.00
Ferdinand Huber, Cochrane, Wis. ovata 67 2 15.00
John D. Bontrager, Middlebury, Ind. ovata 65 3 10.00
John Roddy, Napoleon, Ohio Dunbarii ? 64 4 5.00
Steve Green, Battle Creek, Mich. ovalis ? 63 5 5.00
[A]Mrs. Hamill Goheen, Pennsylvania
Furnace, Pa. Dunbarii ? 62 6 3.00
Menno Zurcher Nut No. 1, Apple Creek, Ohio ovata