had much success selling them either husked or unhusked, "too hard
to crack." Then someone remarked, "If you would crack them and put in
some horseshoe nails to pick out the meats, they might sell." There it
is: the secret is discovered. The lowly and almost extinct horseshoe
nail will sell cracked black walnuts. I have the reputation among local
hardware dealers of having more horses than any man in Oklahoma. Black
walnuts and horseshoe nails are reminiscent of the good old days down on
the farm. The big fat meats of improved cracked walnuts peering through
the sides of one or two pound cellophane bags pinned shut with a couple
of horseshoe nails is a temptation few people can resist. Leave a few
packages with your grocer or druggist and try it. I get 25c per pound
for the whole walnuts, and 35c for those cracked. I sell several
thousand pounds every season, and since the black walnut does not become
rancid we sell them all the year. I have a down-town shop window to
display nuts and fruits. We husk our walnuts by running them thru an
ordinary corn-sheller, or by jacking up the rear wheel of an automobile,
put on a mud chain, with a trough underneath, place car in gear and
scoop walnuts into trough in front of the wheel. This will husk them
rapidly and well. We should promote the growing of more improved black
walnuts. Most catalog nurseries still list seedling walnuts. We sold
3000 Thomas and Myers black walnut trees to one mail order nursery, and
they could have used more.

English Walnuts

I tried all the California varieties, but these lacked hardiness. The
Wiltz Mayette grew into a big fine tree but the 1940 Armistice Day
freeze proved fatal. Breslau, Broadview, Schafer, and several others
with some 25 Carpathian seedlings are just coming into bearing. Some
give promise of adaptation here. I am determined to find a prolific and
adapted variety. In the meantime we must content ourselves to grow this
most attractive tree with its large waxy leaves and beautiful
light-colored bark as a useful novelty.

Heartnuts

Here is a surprise nut and tree to Oklahoma people. Both are unlike
anything ever seen here. When they see this most unusual tree, with its
tropical leaves and taste the delicious nuts they want a tree for their
yard. Visitors stare in amazement at the immense catkins, and the
grape-like clusters of nuts that develop later. This is a heartnut year.
In most all varieties, ten to fifteen nuts to the cl