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
I just wanted to give you a general idea of what we have done with
honeylocust in Alabama. In 1938 the TVA sent down some Millwood and
Calhoun for test planting. We put those trees in two different types of
planting. We had an integrated planting where we were trying to select
at that time some good pasture plants, and, of course, we had something
like a hundred different species in the one planting. The trees were
planted relatively thick, but the larger trees were planted longer
distances apart, and the intermediate trees intermediate distances
apart, and then we had shrubs coming in under those. It was supposed to
have been a three-story type of planting, black walnut in the upper
story, honeylocust as an intermediate and shrubs for the ground. We were
using different types of plums for the understory; then on the ground we
had _Lespedeza sericea_. But from that we did get several different
plant materials that did look promising, and we put the Calhoun
honeylocust and the Millwood honeylocust in with that planting for
trial, and they did so well that we expanded the honeylocust into
another planting. I am very sorry that this latter planting had to be
taken out.
Hillculture research went under in June of 1947, and the Horticulture
Department took this work over, and they thought they could not support
the honeylocust pasture program in Horticulture, and the plot, of
course, was pulled out and planted in peaches.
Anyway, we do have some information I'd like to give you. The Dairy
Department of the Alabama Experiment Station carried out quite an
extensive feeding test over a two-year period to find out the value of
these pods in the dairy ration. They substituted the honeylocust pods
ground. Professor Eaton of the Dairy Department assures me that none of
the seeds in those pods were cracked. They ground the pods with corn in
order to take up some of the excess honey that is in the back of these
pods so that they'd grind well, and they ground them in a hammermill,
and the burrs were running far enough apart so that he assures me that
very few of the seeds, if any, were ever cracked.
That has been somewhat of a discussion, among feed producers especially,
recently, as to whether or not it would be profitable to grind those
seeds in order to get the protein and fats that the seed has. There
isn't a very high percentage of food in the seed itself, but you do get
a little more protein and a little more fat if you grind the seed
itself.
We have found in storage that weevils get in these seeds, but the weevil
doesn't destroy the carbohydrates, and the weevil will only pierce the
seed and make a hole in it. Then the intestinal juices of a cow will go
in through this hole and they can digest the seed. That is something
that comes along with storage.
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