eylan.
Whether we can grow this successfully here or not, I am not certain, but
it is well worth trying. The better type of our nut seedlings in the
east are from the Parisienne. We must get a nut something like this that
you can crack between your fingers, not one that is sealed so hard that
it requires a hammer, and must get one with a very good quality of meat.
One great advantage to the walnut grower in the East will be that he can
get his crop on to the Thanksgiving market, which is the cream of the
market--something the Western or European nut grower cannot do. So if we
can grow a nut reasonably fair in quality we can expect excellent
results.

The Chairman: Mr. Jones, will you give us your points now?

Mr. Jones: Dr. Deming yesterday asked me to give a little demonstration
of grafting and I have brought along a sort of transplanted nursery on a
board, so that I might do so.

(Here Mr. Jones demonstrated methods of grafting the pecan.)

The Chairman: Tell us about the wax cloth, Mr. Jones.

Mr. Jones: We use that over the cut.

The Chairman: How do you make your wax cloth?

Mr. Jones: We take a roll of this, possibly three or four yards long,
very thin muslin, roll it up and drop it in the melted wax.

The Chairman: How do you make that wax?

Mr. Jones: We don't measure the ingredients, but I think it varies from
four to six pound of rosin, to one pound of beeswax and a tea cup full
of boiled linseed oil and about a tablespoon of lamp black.

Prof. Smith: What do you use the lamp black for, Mr. Jones?

Mr. Jones: To toughen the wax so that it will not crack and so that it
will adhere better.

A Member: How do you get your excess of wax off the cloth?

Mr. Jones: We just throw the rolls on a board and press them.

Mr. Reed: I believe you would find it easier to tear it up into strips
than to put it in rolls. We have been using that method. We ran short of
cloth and I went to town and got some and tore off a piece about 8 or 9
yards long and folded it up into strips that wide and dipped it in the
pure beeswax and pressed it on a board and it was ready for work.

Col. Sober: I take just a common corn cob and wind it on as you would on
a spool, then, while the wax is warm, I dip it in; you can have the
cloth half an inch wide or an inch wide just as you please. My way of
making wax is, I take two pounds of rosin, one pound of beeswax and half
a pound of tallow. I find that stands all kinds of weather.