llbark hickory is
also going to be a nut of the same kind, a nut that can be put on the
market in large quantities at a small price, for the man of limited
means to buy and crack out himself. Dr. Morris, speaking of some tough
nut, once said it was so tough that it was only of interest to squirrels
and men out of work. That expression about "men out of work" made me
think, as do so many things that Dr. Morris says. If a man out of work
can buy a bushel of black walnuts for a dollar, and if he can crack out
several bushels a day, or even only one bushel a day, he can make more
wages just cracking out that bushel of black walnuts than at ordinary
laboring work. I think that we ought to get on the market a supply of
cheap nuts for the man of limited means and that we ought to educate the
people to a knowledge of the value of such nuts.

THE PRESIDENT: It is always well to put the brakes on. I haven't heard a
thing about this black walnut except virtues. I believe Mr. McMurran, of
the Department of Agriculture, is present, and I think he has been
giving particular attention to the black walnut, and perhaps he will
tell us of some of its enemies, either animal or vegetable.

MR. S. M. MCMURRAN: Well, Mr. President, unfortunately, I haven't given
much attention to the black walnut. My time has been given to the pecan
until this summer, when I worked on the persian walnut to some extent,
but I can say, generally, that the black walnut hasn't got any very
serious enemies. Everything it has got is right here now. There isn't
any reason to suppose that it would have any serious disease if we
cultivated it on an extensive scale.

As to the insects, I am not able to state. I have never noticed any
particularly on the nut since a boy.

MR. LITTLEPAGE: Mr. President, I think Mr. McMurran has covered the
diseases of the black walnut. I think the observation of every one will
confirm what Mr. McMurran has said.

THE PRESIDENT: The chair will deviate from parliamentary practice for a
moment by dismissing the question. I wish to contribute three small
facts. One is with reference to the special growth of the black walnut
under fertilization. The men on my place have to cut bushes around apple
trees, and some stray black walnuts planted by nature under those trees
have been cut for 10 years but for the last two seasons have been left
alone. They have promptly come up through those apple trees, under the
influence of nitrate of soda,