Mr. Bricker: Have any of you come in contact with a black walnut, seemingly deformed, in which there is only one lobe in the shell?
The President: Dr. Deming, what is your observation of the Stabler with one lobe?
Dr. Deming: 50% are one lobe.
Mr. Hershey: Mr. Bixby found, I think, 60%. We don't know why there should be nuts with one lobe.
Dr. Smith: In my observation of the Stabler, the percentage of one lobe nuts is very small, not more than 5%.
Mr. Bricker: Also there is a large black walnut at Atalissa, with a very thin shell. I have seen some of them, however, that were not very well filled last year.
The President: Is that a little town in Iowa?
Mr. Bricker: Yes. Below Iowa City, east of West Liberty.
The President: Mr. Wilkinson has something interesting to tell us about the discovery of a black walnut valued for its lumber.
Mr. Wilkinson: Possibly Professor Smith knows more about that than I do. The first I knew of it Mr. Lamb wrote that he had found an unusual figured walnut. He had already sent scions to Dr. Morris and Mr. Bixby, and Dr. Morris suggested he send me some. When the log came Mr. Lamb found it unusually highly figured. He traced it to where it was loaded. They went to the fields and chopped into the tops until they found the tree by the figure of the wood. It had been cut two months and the wood was entirely dry. Mr. Bixby sent me two very tiny grafts. The tree sawed out something over 60,000 feet of veneer that sold from 16 to 18 cents per square foot; quite a large tree. It sawed out five logs and the stump sawed out 500 feet. Several thousand dollars for the tree. I saw several pieces of the tree last year. The most beautiful thing I ever saw. Most highly figured log that ever came into the mill at Chicago.