heard of,
where soil application of DDT hurt growth of fruit plants. Benzene
hexachloride, and some other chlorinated hydrocarbons, and parathion
actually appeared to have a stimulating effect on the berry plants.[14]

Mr. Frye: Why would there be any more danger of affecting the soil in a
chestnut orchard than there would in the apple and peach orchard by
spraying seven, eight and ten times? That's the only question that
arises with me.

Mr. Chase: Let's get back to chestnuts specifically, now, gentlemen.

Mr. Kays (Oklahoma A. & M. College): Since I don't come from a chestnut
area, my impression of the nut samples supplied by Mr. Moore of Auburn,
was: "I'd like them if they had salted them." I am wondering if it
wouldn't have affected their rancidity if they had been treated--salting
material added, prior to or in the process somewhere along the line.

Mr. J. C. Moore: I'd just like to say I have tried putting salt in the
water, to boil the nuts with salt, and then I have tried shelling them
and sprinkling salt, and I find that salt does not add anything to the
flavor. Tasting the nuts raw, I, too, get the impression salt is what I
want, but I haven't been able to add it satisfactorily. I don't say that
it cannot be done.

Dr. MacDaniels: Mr. Chairman, in view of the whole situation of chestnut
incompatibility of stock with scion, what would be the position that we
in the Northern Nut Growers Association can take in advising people what
kind of chestnuts they should plant? Should they be encouraged to try to
get grafted trees? What should be our position?

Mr. Chase: Mr. Stoke, would you care to comment on that?

Mr. Stoke: You are asking me to stick out my neck, and it seems as if I
have always done that. The Chinese chestnut is in the Johnny Appleseed
stage, in my opinion, and we are investigating to find out the best
varieties, that is, the best specimen, best performance, best quality,
best in blight resistance, growth, and other qualities and when we
winnow out all we have and arrive at the best, we are going to
find--now, this is just my personal opinion--I will say that for myself
I'd rather have one acre of the best selections we have budded or
grafted--asexually propagated, than five acres of seedling trees as a
financial good bet, because I say that one acre of our very best produce
virtually as many nuts as five acres of seedlings. I have trees from
seed I imported through the Yokahama Nursery Compan