producing areas. And this County of Williamson south of
Nashville in years past has sent plenty of walnuts to market. So that's
a walnut producing area. And up here in this Highland Rim we have some
counties by the name of Pickett and Overton and Clay County. Well, they
produce walnuts, and the people up there have in the past cracked out a
lot of walnuts. And in Montgomery County they produce walnuts. So the
normal trade centers where these walnuts move is really to a great
degree here at this town of Morristown in East Tennessee, and Nashville
in Middle Tennessee, and this Middle Tennessee center draws from
Kentucky. In fact, these four or five large shelling concerns know about
the walnuts pretty much all over the entire walnut producing territory.

Through the years the Agricultural Extension Service, University of
Tennessee, with which I am connected, has been keenly interested in
assisting in any way we can to get additional income out of walnut
kernels, and in recent years the whole uncracked walnut. And even though
I am a forester I can see the possibilities of this, and we like to
carry it along. In fact, I consider walnut as kind of a dual-purpose
tree, fine for timber production, also for production of nuts, walnut
meats or kernels. You might term it a triple-purpose tree. I don't think
there is any better tree than that for a shade tree in pastures, in the
field, and around the home, because for one reason it makes what we term
in this state a "cold shade," and it is not a hot shade like you get
under a sugar maple. The maple has a dense foliage. And as Mr. Chance
indicated this morning, walnut is usually associated with blue grass.
Blue grass will grow under it.

I guess some of you here remember the years of the depression, and I
remember in 1932, for example, we had a heavy crop of black walnuts in
the state. Then I believe the price for kernels of 15 cents a pound
would have been a good price during that year, and some of them probably
sold for less. So if we had the time we would follow through all the
years, beginning with 1927, but just to make it as brief as possible, I
will leave those out, but I would like to mention the year 1941. It sort
of disrupted things in the kernel industry, because at that time the
Pure Food and Drug people came in here and set up regulations, and it
interfered with the merchandising of these kernels, because the producer
had to satisfy certain sanitary regulations, and i