ment of Horticulture of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute of Auburn. Mr. Moore.

The Present Outlook for Honeylocust in the South

J. C. MOORE, Department of Horticulture, Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
Auburn, Alabama

Mr. Moore: Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: Before I start this
discussion, just in case some of you are not familiar with honeylocust,
its habit of growth, the size of the pods and the possibility of its
yield, I'd like to take time out just to show a few slides, then I will
go ahead with the discussion and give you some data on that honeylocust
production. I believe if you would look at these slides before we start
the discussion it would give you a good idea what the tree looks like,
how it grows, the age at which it starts bearing and something about its
general habits; it will help you a lot to understand what I have to say
about it.

(Slides shown.)

This is the Millwood honeylocust. The pods will vary in size from about
12 inches to 14 inches in length, from one and a half to one and
three-quarters inches in width, and the back part of the pod, something
that I can't show on this particular type of picture, is very thick, and
this back part of the pod, the thick part of it, is very rich in
carbohydrates. We have the Calhoun and Millwood selections that have run
as high, the Millwood a little over 36 per cent sugar and the Calhoun a
little over 38 per cent sugar. The Millwood is a much higher yielding
tree than the Calhoun. I will bring that out in a few minutes' time.

This is a borrowed slide and I don't know the history of these trees,
but I judge that the tree is about three years old. We have had good
yields on three-year-old trees at Auburn.

Here is a group of trees growing with a ground cover, and again I am not
familiar with the ground cover, but just judging from the general
appearance it looks like a picture that came from our files. If that is
true then I know the story. The tree in the background is a Calhoun tree
and the tree in the foreground is a Millwood growing in _Lespedeza
sericea_ and I will bring out some points in a few minutes in the
general discussion on the value of these two plants growing together as
a combination.

I believe this is another tree that grew on my farm, and the year this
picture was made this particular tree, eight years of age, bore 250
pounds of those luscious pods.

A close-up again, giving you the general size of the pod, how they are