ease this time was eight acres, of which five were planted to
trees during the spring of 1946. In all plantings, the distance between
trees has remained the same as at first, not that 25 feet is enough for
bearing trees but because it is expected to do a large amount of
thinning out as bearing begins and many trees prove their inferiority.

The problem of propagating desirable varieties has been our greatest
difficulty. The kinds we wanted were not to be had from nursery sources
as they were entirely new. Commercial nurserymen would not even
undertake the task of grafting. We were forced to rely upon our own
ingenuity. Not only did we have to master the art of grafting but we had
to drive hundreds of miles in order to obtain scions of the various
kinds. We still know too little about grafting. We often raise the
question as to how it happens that surgeons can do almost anything they
wish in the way of cutting and splicing parts of the human body, yet
with nut trees, 75 per cent of success is rarely attained.

Last spring I began a rather elaborate comparison of paraffin with
beeswax--lanolin for use in grafting. Dr. Shelton had demonstrated that
the latter was a good dressing for wounds and I assumed that in
grafting, it would promote callousing. My experiment was partially
frustrated by the loss of my melting pot which burned at about the time
the work was half done. The grafting had to be finished without wax of
any kind. Out of 60 grafts so set, only five grew. The five survivors
had been merely "boxed off" or "bled," none grew which had been treated
with hot wax of any kind.

Research with nuts has but barely begun at the Farm. We feel, however,
much encouraged and that the worst is over. We have a total of 725 trees
in the planting, many of which have already borne a few nuts. Production
should increase rapidly and we will soon have considerable quantities of
nuts and other material with which to work. We have the following
genera, species, varieties, and hybrid forms: Butternut--Craxezy and
Vincamp; Chestnut--Carr, Hobson, Yankee (Syn., Connecticut Yankee), and
Zimmerman; Hickory, including hybrids--Bixby, Bogne, Boor Nos. 1 and 2,
Bowen, Cranz Nos. 1 and 2, Fairbanks, Frank, Haskell, Leach, Lozsdon,
McConkey, Nething, Reynolds, Ridiker, Russell, Stratford, Weschcke, and
Wright; Pecan--Busseron, Greenriver, and Posey; Black Walnut--Barnhart,
Brown, Cowle, Fulton (Syn. Miller of Ohio), Hare, Havice, Horton,
Janse