e in the
cabins and drive through the forests, to swim in the lake, as some of us
did yesterday afternoon, went far away around the bend, and went in
swimming--I think you might improve the mud bottom in some places, which
is not too good, but it reminds us of our youth, at least--and to fish
in the lakes, although not too successfully. After we have done that we
certainly know much more about what sort of a development the Tennessee
Valley Authority is.

Another thing, as a member of the Northern Nut Growers Association and
as you are members, I think we all appreciate what the Tennessee Valley
Authority has done for the Northern Nut Growers Association. The
Tennessee Valley Authority has been the first, you might say, large
agency which has taken northern nut growing seriously and has used the
knowledge which has been developed by this Association in an extensive
way in the planting and developing of new varieties, developing of new
techniques in the use of the plants, the nut trees and the persimmons,
and what not, with which the Northern Nut Growers Association has been
concerned.

As we drive up the valley here and we see these thousands of walnut
seedlings which are still to be used and see the plantings which you
will see more intimately later, we can realize just how extensively the
Tennessee Valley Authority has been concerned with the development of
our forest resources and particularly these plants which are of economic
value, inasmuch as they are nut trees, and their relationship to
wildlife and a project of this kind in which forest resources and tree
resources are to be made use of.

I have noticed that you did mention fishing as one of the things that
has been developed by the Tennessee Valley Authority. I also am reminded
of the fact that some of us, including our president, tried to go out
and exercise some of these fish, without much success, and I have been
trying to think of the reason. I know, as far as we are concerned, we
used all the plugs and spinners and floating baits and sinking baits,
and I went completely through my tackle box and pulled out the one that
we call the "Christmas tree," a big bunch of spoons with a place to put
a minnow on the end, and we dragged that around, almost swamped the
motor, but did get around; didn't catch anything.

It reminds me of an incident there at Cornell. We have a director, who
was head of the Pomology Department at that time. He had a dog that
wasn't