tion there in the individual trees. Some trees are
typically males. They never bear anything, but they have staminate
catkins. Others are typically females, never bearing anything but the
pistillate flowers. Then we have an integration there of perfect trees.
I know of one tree in Blount County, Alabama that for nine years never
missed a crop. It had perfect flowers, or rather, both pistillate and
staminate flowers on the same tree. However, the flowers were borne on
separate catkins, the pistillate flowers, catkins, coming out on the
same node with the male and producing the pod. So you do have a large
variation in the fruiting habits, and we have found those variations on
Millwood selections and on Calhoun selections, even though they were
vegetatively propagated.

The reason why we can take a bud off a female Millwood and put it onto a
root stock and get a male tree I can't figure out, but they seem to act
that way in that respect. I have had a Millwood tree that never bore
anything but male flowers.[18] That is something for someone else to
figure out. I can't explain it.

Just briefly I'd like to give you the observational work that we have
done with honeylocust. For mules in a feeding test we fed a team of
mules for 30 days nothing but honeylocust and hay, and these mules were
in fine shape when they came out at the end of the feeding test. You say
that's an awfully short feeding test. It is, but we had very few pods.
Then for cows I have gone into it more extensively. I have a cow myself,
and I have fed that cow honeylocust pods and that was all the grain she
had through the winter months, and got excellent milk production. You
get excellent milk flavor from these pods and an increase in milk
production.

A very interesting thing happened. I went out in the community to gather
pods from the wild trees for a feeding test, and there was a lady who
owned a farm pretty close to our project. I went over and talked with
her about getting the pods from her trees to feed to my cows for feeding
tests, and it was O. K. But when I left she got to thinking the thing
over, and she decided that if honeylocust pods were good for my cow they
would be good for her cow! So I went back in a few days' time--the pods
weren't mature when I went the first time. I went back in a few days and
I didn't ask the lady if I could get the pods, I just stopped on the
side of the road and we put a darky up in the tree to shake the pods
off. A