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["R. Keith Etheridge" <goatdoc@ctitech.com>]

Hi Mary
I think quite possibly I'm the oldest NAFEX veterinarian as I graduated from 
Illinois veterinary college in'53 (second class).
3 or 4 years later I bought 80 acres of brush weeds and some worn out farm 
land nine miles from my residence. I had it cleared for pasture and farm 
land
At the time there were no walnut trees and I planted 3 seedlings from the 
family farm.Later when I dispersed the cattle and put the marginal crop land 
in CRP Planted numerous seeds
by stomping in the ground.Along with a few trees I bench grafted and the 
hybrid seedlings constitute the The genetic material of the thousands of 
walnuts I have.
I remember the area I planted the hybrids so will keep looking.
Keith


-----Original Message----- 
From: Mary Yett
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 5:25 PM
To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters
Subject: Re: [nafex] walnut hybrid

This sounds very interesting. I too would love to see a picture. I am too
far north to grow carpathian walnuts ( or at least so far), but black
walnuts do well here on Manitoulin Island ( in Lake Huron - Ontario's near
north, zone 4b). I love to eat black walnuts, but any improvement in
cracking  them that grows on fairly hardy tree would be most exciting,

I have around 25 or so black walnut seedlings of local stock started Spring
of 2014 and would be interested in getting scion wood from your tree,maybe
in Winter/Spring of 2016, when my trees are big enough to graft. Would you
be interested in selling me some some day?

It makes me chuckle that I now know of 3 veterinarians who are active in
NAFEX and have been growing nut trees for decades-- you, me and Lucky
Pitmann. Maybe that is because vets tend to be all a bit "nutty'.

Mary Yett  ( Auburn, class of '82)

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:06 PM, R. Keith Etheridge <goatdoc@ctitech.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jerry
> After I posted this I searched the internet and other than the thick light
> fibrous husk the nut shows no sign of Carpathian traits.There are other
> trees in the area I planted the
> hybrid seedlings so I'll start checking the nuts from them.
> Thanks
> Keith
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jwlehman--- via nafex
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 7:21 PM
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [nafex] walnut hybrid
>
>
> Hi Keith,
>
> Can you supply pictures?
>
> Jerry
>
>
> In a message dated 10/14/2014 4:20:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> goatdoc@ctitech.com writes:
>
> Kincaid  Illinois is a few miles west of Taylorville Illinois where I was 
> a
> veterinarian. It was created as a coal mining town where a large portion
> of  the miners were Italian immigrants.
> One of my clients of Italian extraction  had a large Carpathian walnut in
> her yard with many dogs.Knowing my interests  she shared several nuts with
> me. When they germinated
> they produced what  appeared to be a black walnut seedlings that I 
> planted.
> I’m a very poor record  keeper but I have a tree thirty or more years 
> later
> that produces a pear  shape
> husk that a appears more fibrous and organized than other black  walnuts
> and produced a nut that cracks somewhat easier than the run of the
> mill.Not
> dry enough to evaluate.
> I think at one time the USDA had walnut  hybrid station that was 
> terminated
> due to lack of  success.
> Keith
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