, so it can be
hit on the end. A glove to protect the fingers holding the nut is useful
if many are to be cracked. Good results can be secured by holding the
nut on its side and tapping it on the suture. This, however is
difficult, as it necessitates shucking the nut and even then it is
difficult to identify the suture.

Through the years many varieties of butternut have been named. Mr. R. L.
Watts in the 35th annual report of the Association lists 26 names, and I
am sure there are others. I personally have had experience with only
three or four varieties. One of these, the Crax-ezy, has borne good
crops and the nuts crack well. Another one, which I have named the
Johnson, coming from Tonawanda, New York, cracks well but is a smaller
nut. At one time I had Thill variety topworked on _Juglans Sieboldiana_
stock, but the stock was killed by cold winter. Samples of Kinnyglen and
Mandeville were furnished by Mr. Graham for testing. We do not, however,
have any comparative rating of many varieties based on comparative
tests, nor are there recognized standards of quality.

In order to set up standards of quality for butternuts, the following
tentative schedule for judging has been worked out along the same lines
as the schedule for judging black walnuts. Twenty-five nuts are used in
a sample and the score is made up of the weight in grams of the kernels
recovered on the first crack, plus total weight of kernels divided by 2,
plus 1/2 point for each whole half kernel recovered. A nut should not be
considered worthy of propagation unless practically all of the kernels
come out in whole halves.

Proposed Schedule For Testing Butternuts

25 Nut Samples

Score = Wt. kernels first crack + total wt. kernels / 2 + no. whole
halves / 2.

Weight Total
Kernels Weight
1st crack Kernels No.
Variety Grams Grams Halves Score Remarks

Kinnyglen 52.0 57.5 36 98.8
Crax-ezy 48.0 56.0 44 98.0
Mandeville 53.6 66.0 10 91.6
Johnson 38.5 45.5 40 81.3
Seedling No. 1 36.5 45.0 7 62.5
Seedling No. 2 26.0 43.0 22 58.5
Seedling No. 3 20.0 44.5 10 47.3

In this schedule the crackability of the sample is measured by the
weight of first crack and the number of halves. The yiel