1943 after the rest period was over and
reset in the greenhouse. The plants leaved out in January, 1944, and
both male and female flowers appeared soon after. The pollen was applied
to the pistils both by shaking the branches and by means of a camels
hair brush. Nearly all the blossoms set and the nuts carried through to
maturity. The experiment was repeated in 1944-45 with the same results.

It is therefore concluded that the Winkler filbert is self-fruitful and
may safely be planted alone where climatic conditions are favorable for
filbert production.

Hickories and Other Nuts in Northwestern Illinois

By A. B. Anthony, Sterling, Illinois

I have something like 25 grafted hickories of my No. 1 (Anthony)
variety. The largest tree now has a trunk of 5-1/2 inches in diameter;
has 20 nuts on it this year; and while it has had but few nuts each
year, has missed bearing but one season in the past seven years. Other
No. 1 trees run from 3-1/2 inches, in diameter down to about 1 inch. One
3-1/2 inch tree is offering its second bearing with five nuts this
season. All these trees were grafted in cutover woodland tracts and
moved here except the largest one which was moved in 1930 and grafted in
1933, 30 inches high and never trimmed for a higher head. Heavy annual
catkin bloomer, few pistillates so far.

Of my No. 2 variety, one tree transplanted in 1927 now has something
like 25 nuts on it. The No. 3 hickories, five of them, have never borne
either pistillate or staminate blooms. No. 4 is a hican from the parent
tree of which I have had but three good nuts. The weevil moth works so
well in dense woods that rarely are the nuts good there. The nuts are
attractive and should not discolor like the lighter hickories, should
their opening husks get rained upon when maturing.

Men of the future must decide on the merits of these trees. Of the two
Hagen trees grafted in 1931, one now has its first nuts, eight in
number. I have been told that some one will cut these trees down some
day. One of our county or state officials said a short time back that
"if hog troubles keep coming on as of late, in 50 years we will not be
able to raise hogs." With corn being the main hog food and the corn
borer coming, this may come to be quite true, and then perhaps more men
will get new vision as to where their meat is coming from.

The past three years have offered almost no hickories at all. Hickories
do not like shade, but they have