Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report: at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
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Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report: at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
Northern Nut Growers Association -- Periodicals; Nut trees -- Periodicals; Nuts -- Periodicals
This is the Millwood honeylocust. The pods will vary in size from about
12 inches to 14 inches in length, from one and a half to one and
three-quarters inches in width, and the back part of the pod, something
that I can't show on this particular type of picture, is very thick, and
this back part of the pod, the thick part of it, is very rich in
carbohydrates. We have the Calhoun and Millwood selections that have run
as high, the Millwood a little over 36 per cent sugar and the Calhoun a
little over 38 per cent sugar. The Millwood is a much higher yielding
tree than the Calhoun. I will bring that out in a few minutes' time.
This is a borrowed slide and I don't know the history of these trees,
but I judge that the tree is about three years old. We have had good
yields on three-year-old trees at Auburn.
Here is a group of trees growing with a ground cover, and again I am not
familiar with the ground cover, but just judging from the general
appearance it looks like a picture that came from our files. If that is
true then I know the story. The tree in the background is a Calhoun tree
and the tree in the foreground is a Millwood growing in _Lespedeza
sericea_ and I will bring out some points in a few minutes in the
general discussion on the value of these two plants growing together as
a combination.
I believe this is another tree that grew on my farm, and the year this
picture was made this particular tree, eight years of age, bore 250
pounds of those luscious pods.
A close-up again, giving you the general size of the pod, how they are
produced in masses, and you get quite a bit of weight in some of those
thick-backed pods that you don't get from the thin pods that grow
normally on seedling trees. The TVA has done quite a bit of work in
selecting and developing the honeylocust, and I believe we give that
particular organization credit for the development of both the Millwood
and the Calhoun.
I thought it would be very valuable to give you just a glimpse of the
habit of growth of those trees before I start with my general discussion
so that you would understand something about what I am talking about.
Mr. Weber: Are these thornless?
Mr. Moore: These are thornless honeylocusts. The original parent trees
of the Millwood and Calhoun had thorns. By vegetative propagation--they
went out and cut scionwood on the limbs above the thorns and propagated
the thornless twigs on thornless root stock--we now have a thornless
honeylocust.
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