in 1947,
you will find that the Oliver, Kuhn, Penn, and Orth trees were reported
on favorable sites, while the Duke and Burson were on very unfavorable
ones so that the above results are only what might have been expected.
The Orth tree, however, is in a favorable location and better production
could have been expected of it.
Table 1. Size, as Weight of Unshelled Walnuts (Approximate).
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Grams 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 Average[24]
per nut
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28 Orth
27 Duke
Duke
26 Penn
Oliver
Orth Duke Kuhn
25
Penn Orth Duke
Duke
Athens Penn
Williamson Penn Penn
23 Orth Williamson Oliver Oliver
Oliver Orth
Williamson Kuhn Duke
22 Oliver
Chamberlin
Burson Williamson
21 Oliver Penn
Athens Kuhn Burson Burson
Burson Burson, Athens Burson Kuhn
Athens
20 Athens
Chamberlin Williamson
19 Kuhn
18 Chamberlin
17
16
Kuhn
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Judges for the contest were C. W. Ellenwood and O. D. Diller of the Ohio
Experiment Station and L. Walter Sherman, then with the Department of
Agriculture, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 24: Average of five years for Duke, Oliver, Burson and Kuhn;
four years for Penn, which was not cracked in 1949, but interpolated in
charts.
Note: To save time and the expense of redrawing and reproduction, these
seven tables are printed instead of Mr. Sherman's graphic charts. With a
ruler and pencil, lines can be drawn through the "D's of Duke", and so
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