nuts seem to be admirably adapted for interplanting with
mulberries, cherries, pears, and the like in poultry runs and hog lots
where the pigs and chickens will control the weevils by gleaning the
prematurely dropped and overlooked chestnuts which contain the grubs of
the weevil. The fruit portion of the integrated planting will maintain a
high carbohydrate ration during the season for the use of the livestock.
Here, again, plenty of space should be allowed between trees to allow
each its full measure of water, food, air and sunlight.

Careful and thorough research is needed to determine the full
requirements of nut trees and to work out the interplanting
relationships. In view of the vast potentialities for their use,
investigational programs may soon be under way and much more definite
information be made available to the farmer and landowner.

References

AIKMAN, J. M.--A Basin Method of Nut Tree Culture. Proc. Iowa. Acad.
Sci. 50:241-246. 1943

NEEL, L. R.--The Effect of Shade on Pasture. Tenn. Exp. Sta. Cir. 65,
1939

SMITH, R. M.--Some Effects of Black Locusts and Black Walnuts on
Southeastern Ohio Pastures Soil Sci. 53:385-398, 1942

Nut Work At the Mahoning County Experiment Farm, Canfield, Ohio

By L. Walter Sherman, Superintendent

My interest in nuts dates back to the turn of the century when, as a boy
in high school, I delighted in gathering wild nuts for my own use. I
knew of several black walnut trees bearing very fine nuts and also one
excellent hickory. These were near my home in northern Ohio.

After my school days were over, I married and went to Oklahoma, where I
found the most miserable wild nuts imaginable. However, I stayed but a
short time and returned to my native state where the wild nuts were
reasonably good. In 1935, I made a trip to California and visited the
Persian walnut orchards at harvest time. As if that were not enough to
convince me that it would be worth my while to do what I could in behalf
of the nut industry, the Agricultural press of the time published
several intriguing accounts of Persian walnuts growing in and near
Toronto, Ontario which had been brought there by Rev. Paul C. Crath from
the Carpathian Mountains of Poland.

My constant talk about hardy strains of Persian walnut prompted friends
to tell me of several plantings already growing in northern Ohio with
more or less success. I promptly obtained scions and undertook to graft
a number of these, but