inly bear me out on that.

PRESIDENT BEST: Now I think Joe McDaniel has a little idea here he wants
to introduce at this time.

DR. MACDANIEL: I have been talking with Mr. Devitt. He is interested in
following up these Carpathian trees in Ontario and is willing to act as
our agent in securing seed nuts from some of the better selected trees.
As I understand it, this Association couldn't properly act as a sales
agency for them, but I believe there are some of the members who would
like to get these superior seed nuts of Ontario, and I would be willing
to take the names of persons who are interested in them, either for
their personal planting or for resale. Mr. Devitt thinks he can secure
the nuts at about 60 cents a pound from the owners who have these good
trees and deliver them to the United States at around a dollar a pound.
Anyone who is interested in that, see me or Spencer Chase during the
remainder of the meeting.

Panel Discussion: The Persian Walnut Situation

_Moderator_: S. B. CHASE; _Panel Members_: H. L. CRANE, GILBERT BECKER,
J. C. MCDANIEL, H. F. STOKE.

MR. CHASE: To introduce the subject, Lynn Tuttle sent a paper, and in
addition he sent a few slides. We won't give the paper, but we are going
to run through a few slides very hurriedly, because he took the trouble
to send them. I am going to read the captions off very quickly. (A
series of slides of Persian Walnut were shown).

The moderator isn't going to do anything other than ask for any
questions that you folks have on Carpathians at this time. I am going to
ask Dr. Crane to comment on this question: Are we going overboard
building up our varieties as we know them now? In other words, we have
selected four or five varieties that won a contest and our judges
selected them as best, and these are the only ones we are hearing about.

DR. CRANE: Mr. Moderator, I don't believe we are, provided that we
maintain high standards in the varieties distributed and tested. I feel
that when we select a variety we should select it because it is a good
nut, not that it's a world beater, for big size and thick, rough, rugged
shell that is not sealed, and which is of no value for human use or
consumption, excepting for firewood or fuel. Those big nuts won't fill.
The best nuts are of reasonably large size, well filled with a well
sealed shell and with a kernel that is sweet. Don't figure on selling
nuts that have bitter kernels to anybody else. We have nu