The number of years that we have been testing hickories without getting good shellbarks leads us to hope that we will eventually get good mockernuts.
The contest also has shown some mockernuts of large size and better quality than ordinary but still not good enough to be in a class with the shellbarks noted above.
If the 1929 contest does nothing more than to bring to light these fine shellbarks it is worth all it cost.
I doubt that northern pecans, big western shellbarks and hicans will have a long enough season to ripen.
I have noticed that thick-shelled shellbarks and, to a lesser degree the shagbarks, crack open, in minute hairline cracks, and these nuts which split like this invariably soon become rancid.
REED: The shellbarks and shagbarks are among the finest looking trees in Washington.
Along the Mississippi there were then shellbarks and shagbarks, together with pecans, the latter of which I understand are all gone now.
Seedling trees are, as a rule, of slow growth, rarely attaining a bearing age and size under twenty years, and with the shellbarks thirty or forty years usually pass before anything like a crop of nuts is gathered.
The very large size of these nuts makes them a favorite, especially where the pecan and the true shellbarks are not plentiful.
For example, in the 1918 Contest, three shellbarks and one mockernut came into the prize winning class, whereupon a special lot of prizes for shellbarks and mockernuts were given.
Say, Jack, the shellbarks are droppin' thick down in Big Woods.
In our selfishness, we never thought that other people might have a fondness for shellbarks as well as ourselves.
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