A MEMBER: In order to have that test made, would it be necessary to send the things to the Department?
MR. MCMURRAN: No; it would be necessary for me to come to you and test them on the trees.
MR. LITTLEPAGE: Did those walnuts in Mr. Brown's yard look to you as though they had the blight?
MR. MCMURRAN: Yes, they looked like this (showing specimen).
MR. LITTLEPAGE: Did you notice that tree just across the fence? The reason I ask the question is that if that is blight out there, then that tree right across the fence is very likely resistant, because I have noticed that those walnuts have had this on and off for six or seven years. The limbs of the two trees are within twenty feet of each other.
MR. MCMURRAN: Well, that is a very encouraging point.
MR. LITTLEPAGE: I didn't think that was blight. All those trees at Georgetown that I have observed have that condition on them, more or less, except that one tree.
MR. MCMURRAN: Yet, isn't it true that they bore pretty good crops of nuts, nevertheless?
MR. LITTLEPAGE: Oh, yes.
MR. MCMURRAN: Well, that was the point I had in mind. Of the two trees one bears every other year, and the other bears heavy crops every year.