Butternuts
The last contest where prizes were offered for butternuts was that of 1919 and no nuts of value were entered. The 1929 contest has a number of unusually good ones.
The score card for butternuts was revised for this contest on the basis of the one adopted for the black walnut in the 1926 contest and the constants recalculated.
The prizes awarded are noted below:
| L. K. Irvine, Menominee, Wis. | cinerea | 83 | 1 | $ 50.00 |
| H. J. Thill, Bloomer, Wis., Box 109 | cinerea | 78 | 2 | 15.00 |
| C. F. Hostetter, Bird-In-Hand, Pa. | cinerea | 75 | 3 | 10.00 |
| John F. Kenworthy, Rockton, Wis. | cinerea | 74 | 4 | 5.00 |
| F. E. Devan, Rock Creek, Ohio | cinerea | 73 | 5 | 5.00 |
| E. J. Lingle, Pittsfield, Pa. | cinerea | 70 | 6 | 3.00 |
| John Hergert, St. Peter, Minn., Nut No. 1 | cinerea | 69 | 7 | 3.00 |
| Evert E. Van Der Poppen, Hamilton, Mich. | cinerea | 66 | 8 | 3.00 |
| Mrs. A. B. Simonson, Mondove, Wis. | cinerea | 66 | 8 | 3.00 |
| Mrs. E. Sherman, Montague City, Mass. | cinerea | 64 | 9 | 3.00 |
| W. A. Creitz, Cambridge City, Ind. | Bixbyi ? | 64 | 9 | 3.00 |
| Mrs. Abbie C. Bliss, Bradford, Vt. Nut No. 1 | cinerea | 61 | 10 | 3.00 |
At first it might be thought that but one species of nuts would be sent in as butternuts, and this was true up to 15 or 20 years ago. The chance hybrids of the Japan walnut and the butternut, named Juglans Bixbyi by Prof. C. S. Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum, resemble the butternut so much that as time grows on it is increasingly probable that these will be sent in as butternuts. One came in to the 1919 contest and it is thought that the Creitz of this contest may possibly be such.
Chestnuts
The chestnuts received were relatively few in number but most of them were from sections where the blight had been present many years. Those that were from sections where this condition did not prevail were not allowed to enter. There were a few American chestnuts, some very good ones, from sections where the blight had not destroyed the native chestnut but these were not entered. As it happened all entered were of Japanese or Chinese species, which was somewhat of a disappointment to those who hope that a blight resistant American chestnut will yet be found. It certainly looks so far as if varieties of chestnuts for the blight area, of horticultural value, would be Japanese, Castanea crenata, or Chinese, Castanea mollissima.