arasite on
the pecans in some regions. Have you found that?

Mr. Reed: Yes, that is true; that is one of the pests of the pecan. This
slide shows a typical Texas scene. The wild pecans have been gathered
and are brought into town and are waiting the buyers. You will notice
right here is a bag that has been stood up and opened, waiting for a
buyer, the same as we see grain in the streets of northern towns, and
here are pecans on their way from the warehouse to the car. The next
slide shows another step; they are on their way now from Texas to the
crackery or the wholesalers. The crop of pecans in Texas alone usually
runs from 200 cars to 600 or 700 cars. This year the crop is small and
probably not over 200 cars, so the prices are going up. This is the
pecan crackery in San Antonio, having a capacity of 20,000 pounds a day.
The pecans are cracked by machinery and the kernels are picked out by
hand. This slide shows a native pecan tree. The one in the foreground
was from across the river near Vincennes. It is one of the first
northern varieties that was introduced, but it is now superseded. The
next is the original tree of the Busseron. The nuts from that tree are
on exhibition over at the Court House brought here by Mr. Reed. The tree
was cut back quite severely several years ago to get budwood and has not
made sufficient top yet to bear normal crops again. This is the original
tree of Indiana. Beside the tree is the introducer, Mr. Mason J.
Niblack, the gentleman with his hand by the tree. Now we come to the
original Green River, one of the northern Kentucky pecans. It is in a
forest more than twelve miles from Evansville across the Ohio River in
Kentucky. The trunk of that tree is typical of others in the forest.
There is a pecan forest of perhaps 200 acres, from which everything but
pecan timber was removed several years ago.

The slide before us shows the trunk of a supposed chance hybrid between
hickory and pecan. The next slide shows a grafted tree of that variety.
It is interesting to note the vigor of this hybrid. It is quite the
usual thing to get added vigor with hybrids. This is one of the most
beautiful, dense, dark green trees that I have ever seen in the hickory
family. This tree is in northern Georgia, but it is not so prolific as
the parent tree.

The Chairman: Does the shell fill down there?

Mr. Reed: No, it does not.

The Chairman: It grows very vigorously in Connecticut. It is a perfectly
hardy