steep barren wastes is already under way.

We, of THE NORTHERN NUT GROWERS ASSOCIATION, INC., can look back to many
mistakes we have made in the selection of varieties for our respective
climates and soils. Our dates and methods of grafting, budding, and
transplanting have not always been right. We have gotten hold of
scionwood that we were most sure would not grow when we used it, but we
did use it, hoping, and most of it did fail, as we expected.

In our Association, we have a large group of wise experimenters on
varieties and methods, well placed all over the U. S. and I have every
confidence that, in time, many commercially profitable varieties, and
better methods will reward their research. But in the meantime, we
should all keep ever on the alert for a new and better idea, or variety.

Here in Central Kentucky, of the many black walnuts I have under test,
only Thomas, Victoria, and Eureka have the tendency toward young and
heavy bearing. These three do show great promise in my section as young
and heavy croppers. And they are all top-bracket nuts, according to
tests made by expert testers. There may be newer ones better than these,
and we hope there will be yet better ones turn up continually in the
future.

There are at least a few Persian walnuts that show promise in my
location. Of varieties I have of bearing age, only four are worthy of
mention. These are Broadview, Elmore, "Crath-Dunstan No. I" and
"Crath-Edmunds No. 3." All of the above have borne well on two year old
grafts on large black walnut stocks. Their nuts are in my opinion
excellent.

Wright and Walters heartnuts seem well adapted here, and are doing
equally well for me on Japanese, butternut, and black rootstocks. These
are the only two I have old enough to bear, and they are bearing their
first few nuts each this season. I would like to add here, that the wild
nut crop in general in my section, is very light, and these nut trees
that I mention as bearing this season, are the more to be noticed for
their crops in this year of bad nut crops. I am trying "buartnuts" and
butternuts, which are growing satisfactorily, but not large enough for a
crop.

This is wonderful natural chestnut territory. All of the many Chinese
seedlings I have, and the few grafted ones, are growing nicely, and
quite a number have burs on them when only about belt high to an average
man. I am anxious to get graftwood of superior individuals as they come
out, for propaga