em of judging? You have to
start out with one system and if it is wrong, change it.

Dr. MacDaniels: I think it's a matter of doing something rather than
nothing, for a schedule is always subject to improvement.

Mr. Stoke: I wish to point out we have made some tests together, and
your personal tests and my personal tests ran very close together.

Dr. MacDaniels: That is right.

Mr. Stoke: And one member of the committee is always very conservative
and his tests never run as high on any series as the others. I make a
test and he makes a test, and his are always lower. Maybe, he doesn't
recover as much; perhaps he isn't as expert a cracker. (Vote taken on
the motion; carried.)

President Davidson: Let us adjourn until 8:30 tomorrow morning.

* * * * *

+A Picture from Our Most "Northern" Member+

John Davidson wrote in our 1943 report: "If any man deserves a bright
NNGA medal, it is A. L. Young, of Brooks, Alberta." By planting his
trees near enough to irrigation ditches in his "desert, cactus country,"
and protecting them from livestock, Mr. Young is able to get nuts on the
hardier trees, but he reported that the nuts, "while of fair size, do
not have fleshy kernels ... Butternuts are very sweet with fair size
kernels ... Giant hickory from Ontario seems hardy but particular about
the kind of soil ... Carpathian walnuts killed back quite a lot, so did
most of my hybrid walnuts ... Some Manchurian walnuts ... got a setback
with spring frosts ... Heartnuts got a rough deal last winter
[1942-43.]" Mr. Young wrote to Dr. J. Russell Smith in 1948: "I have
been using pollen of Broadview and Carpathian [Persian walnuts] on my
blacks and while there are a lot of hybrid seedlings, none have fruited
yet. On Peace River hazel [far Northern] I have been using Barcelona, Du
Chilly and Gellatly pollen. Some of these hybrids look good, hardy, and
produce good nuts ... A few varieties of oak are promising and
fruiting."

At his location, Mr. Young expects winter temperature of -45 deg., and the
lowest known [before 1940] was -62 deg.F. Summer temperatures go above
100 deg.F.

[Illustration: Fruiting black walnut grown at Brooks, Alberta, Canada,
by member A. L. Young. The seed came from Ontario.]

+Tuesday Morning Session+

President Davidson: The only way to get started is to start. We are
going to be given a look at the honeylocust situation in the South by
Professor Moore of the Depart