years or so behind that on other nuts.

Size is the most important characteristic in the beechnut, for all are
thin shelled and practically all are well flavored. If we had a beechnut
the size of a chestnut we should have a most valuable addition to our
nuts. The points awarded for size have therefore been on the basis that
eventually we would get a beechnut the size of a chestnut, although we
are very far from that now. Forty points are allowed for size and it is
figured that eventually we will get a beechnut 4 grams in weight which
is the weight of a medium size chestnut. The constants used in figuring
the number to be awarded for other characteristics require little
comment for they are figured on the basis of existing nuts as constants
have hitherto been calculated. The suggested score card is as follows:

Weight 40 points
Color of shell 5 points
Percent of kernel 15 points
Ease of removing pellicle 15 points
Quality and flavor of kernel 25 points
Total 100 points

The details and methods used in judging beechnuts this year, also the
calculations of the constants and the details of the awards, will be
typed for the report.

The prizes awarded were as follows:

Mrs. John M. Pepaw, Johnson, Vt. grandiflora 40 1 $10.00
Mrs. George Marshey, Johnson Vt. grandiflora 39 2 5.00
James Radle, Harbor Springs, Mich. grandiflora 38 3 3.00
Anthony Andreson, Burke, N. Y. grandiflora 35 4 3.00
Fagus sylvatica sylvatica 44 [A] -----
Fagus sylvatica purpurea sylvatica 41 [A] -----
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$21.00
[A] Not entered in the contest

It is not believed that nuts of Fagus sylvatica (European beech) will
test out better, generally, than nuts of Fagus grandiflora (American
beech) but the beechnuts were not tested till late, and the European
beechnuts had been kept in a refrigerator, while the American beechnuts
had not, which very likely may have been the cause for better retaining
both the flavor and pellicle-removing quality, which made these nuts
receive more points for these characteristics and so be awarded more
points than the first four.

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