have a gallon or two, and the Kentucky crop is a
failure. The Green River and Major we didn't get to, but I suspect that
very few of our own trees will have a crop this year.

MR. M. P. REED: Mr. McCoy, I was up there last week, and the Busseron
has probably four times as many nuts as the Indiana. It has a light
crop, while the Indiana has a very light crop. (Laughter.)

MR. MCCOY: When were you there, Mr. Reed?

MR. M. P. REED: Last Sunday.

MR. JONES: You can't judge a pecan by the growth of the tree. You take a
pecan that makes a thick head and lots of limbs, and it is very likely
to be a heavy bearer. On the other hand, a nurseryman likes a variety
that makes a tree, you know.

THE PRESIDENT: On your criterion of a bunched top, which of these eight
varieties we are now propagating is the most promising?

MR. JONES: The Butterick appeals to me.

THE PRESIDENT: Is the Posey in the same class?

MR. JONES: The Indiana makes a thick head.

THE PRESIDENT: Does any other do that?

MR. JONES: The Green River is inclined to on the mature block, but not
the first year in the nursery.

MR. LITTLEPAGE: Mr. President, in view of the fact that this meeting is
reported, and that what we say will go into the official records to be
read by lots of people who can't come and examine us, it might be
understood that there would be some question about the bearing of these
Northern pecan trees. As a matter of fact, I am surprised that any of
them bore any nuts this year when I think how hard Mr. McCoy and Mr.
Reed and myself have cut them for bud-wood. As a matter of fact, our
opinion is that these Northern pecan trees are all excellent bearers, as
the bearing reputation goes with pecan trees. I have watched them pretty
carefully, and the best evidence of what I think of them is that I am
setting them in my orchard. For fear that the minutes may leave the
impression with some casual reader later that these trees bear a quart,
and two gallons, I just want to say that if these gentlemen put into the
record the amount of nuts that they know the Green River, the Butterick,
the Posey and Major have borne--for instance, six weeks ago I bought
sixty pounds of Posey nuts from a certain tree. The man who counted them
counted 120 pounds on the tree, and if the boys around were as active as
when I was a boy, I bet he didn't get more than half of them.

THE PRESIDENT: This is the time of year when the squirrels get nuts, and
I expect th