Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting / Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930

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.

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