Chapter VI: Part 6

To give the product of the walnut crop of the state would only be a wild guess. The system and machinery that we have for finding out how much we raise is only in embryo. The estimates reach all the way from 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. There is a good crop this year and the output for the market is growing rapidly. We need education more than we do growers. But we are learning.

I want to give you some facts of things that I find. Yesterday at the orchard of Alex Lafollette, State Senator from Marion county, and peach king of the Willamette Valley, I found seven-year-old walnut trees planted in rows among his peach trees, walnut trees planted sixteen feet apart! He said that his trees were full of little walnuts in the spring, but they all dropped off, and he did not think they would do well there. He said there were no catkins on the little trees, which accounts for the failure of his crop. This he did not know. And he did not know that the trees would produce the catkins in a year or so and remedy the failures. In the famous Dundee orchards I picked up handfuls of little fibrous roots, photo of which I sent you, that had been torn up by the plow and harrow when cultivating the walnut trees. Bales of these roots could be gathered up from the ground under the trees. The owner said that it did the trees good to treat them that way. Another black walnut tree that I visited in a cultivated field of good deep, rich soil, I found walnut roots protruding from the plowed ground as far away as 108 feet from the tree. The tree was thirty or forty years old.

It would add greatly to the walnut industry of the future if the Forest Service would plant black walnuts in the hills and mountains between here and the coast. You know in that burnt timber section and various localities in the coast mountains there are many places where eight or ten nut trees to the acre would soon give a good account of themselves. If properly planted, in five or ten years they could be topgrafted to a good English variety and add greatly to the value of the public domain as well as the food products of the nation. We have no native walnuts, but almost every variety under the sun will grow here.

WESTERN WALNUT ASSOCIATION.

SEEDLING WALNUT TREE RECORD.

No....... Made............. 191........ by.........................
Owner..............................................................
P. O.................... State.............. Route.................
Exact location.....................................................
NUT--Origin........................................................
Variety..................................... planted...............
TREE--Origin................................ age now...............
Transplanted 19................ Dia. trunk.........................
Height................................. spread.....................
DATES--of budding out..............................................
catkin blooms......................... nut blooms..................
leaves fall........................... nuts fall...................
in 1-lb. kernel wt............... oz. shell wt................. oz.
NUTS--Per tree........... lbs. In cluster............ in lb.......
round,.. oval,.. pointed,.. smooth,.... not well sealed............
KERNEL--light, dark, not easily removed from shell. Tannin--little
excessive.
Tree vigor............ Blight................ per cent.............

PRESENT AT 1916 MEETING

L. H. Ott, 1746 T St., Washington
J. C. Smith, House of Rep. P. O.
Fred. L. Fishback, 609 Union Trust Bldg., Washington
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Chamberlin, 44 R St., N. E.
Dr. Taylor, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Dr. True, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Miss F. Cadel, Shepard St., Chevy Chase, Md.
F. S. Holmes, Ag. Ex. Sta., College Park, Md.
Dr. Hassall, Bowie, Md.
M. P. Reed, Vincennes, Ind.
Carl Poll, Danville
Harry R. Weber, Cincinnati
J. Russell Smith, Round Hill
E. B. Crockett, Monroe, Va.
R. T. Morris, N. Y. City
W. C. Deming, Conn.
Mrs. W. C. Deming
Jacob L. Rife, Camp Hill, Pa., R. D. 1
Paul White, Bowie, Md.
John H. Fisher, Jr.
Mrs. John H. Fisher, Jr., Bradshaw, Md.
Miss Ellen M. Littlepage
Miss Louise Littlepage
John Littlepage
C. A. Van Duzee
W. N. Hutt
W. N. Roper
R. T. Olcott
T. P. Littlepage
Dr. Van Fleet, Glendale, Md.
A. C. Shepherd, Washington
Chas. S. Hayden, Baltimore
C. A. Reed, Washington
Mrs. Reed
W. Bathon, Star reporter
Henry Stabler, Washington
H. M. Simpson, Vincennes
C. S. Ridgway, Lumberton
Mrs. Ridgway
C. P. Close
M. B. Waite
R. L. McCoy
Dr. Ira Ulman
Rev. E. N. Kirby, Ballston, Va.
S. M. McMurran, Washington
Dr. Augustus Stabler, 45 R St., N. E., Washington
C. M. Stearns, 1833 Dumont St., Washington
E. C. Pomeroy
A. D. Robinson, Washington
James Tindaw, Waterbury, Md.
Miss Katherine Stuart, Alexandria, Va.
Henry T. Finley, Rockville, Md.
Mrs. Finley
Mrs. F. L. Mulford, Washington, D. C.
B. Eyre, Washington
Mrs. Eyre
J. G. Rush
J. F. Jones
Dr. Kellermann
Dr. Haven Metcalf
Miss Martha Rush
Miss Sarah Garvin, Lancaster
H. A. Stewart, Jeannerette, La.
Mr. Bryan, Bowie
Miss Edna McNaughton, Middleville, Mich.
Mr. C. E. Emig, Washington, D. C.
A. C. Brown, Lanham, Md.

Vincennes Nurseries

W. C. REED, Proprietor

VINCENNES, INDIANA, U. S. A.

PROPAGATORS AND INTRODUCERS

_Budded and Grafted Pecans, Hardy Northern Varieties_
_English (Persian) Walnut Grafted on Black Walnut_
_Best Northern and French Varieties_
_Grafted Thomas Black Walnut_
_Grafted Persimmons, best sorts Hardy Almonds_
_Filberts and Hazelnuts_
_Also General Line Nursery Stock_

SPECIAL NUT CATALOGUE ON REQUEST

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JONES' PENNSYLVANIA GROWN

NUT TREES WILL SUCCEED WITH YOU.

WRITE FOR A COPY OF MY 1917 CATALOGUE
AND NEW PRICE LIST

_If interested in the propagation of nut
trees or top-working seedling trees, ask
for a copy of my booklet on propagation
and list of tools..._

J. F. JONES, The Nut Tree Specialist

LANCASTER, PA.

_Northern Nut Trees_

_Why Plant Nut Trees?_

_Varieties_:

PECANS.
BLACK WALNUTS.
ENGLISH WALNUTS.
HICKORY NUTS.

WHEN TO SET NUT TREES.
HOW TO SET NUT TREES.
DISTANCE APART TO SET NUT TREES.
SOIL FOR NUT TREES.
FERTILIZER FOR NUT TREES.
NUT TREES AS ORNAMENTALS.
NUT TREES FOR PROFIT.

Do you want to know about all of the above? If
so, write for our beautiful illustrated catalogue for
1917.

_Maryland Nut Nurseries_

BOWIE, MARYLAND.

THOMAS P. LITTLEPAGE PAUL WHITE

P. S. We forgot to say that we not only have the
answers to the above but we also have the trees.
M. N. N.

CHESTER VALLEY NURSERIES

ESTABLISHED 1853

Choice Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Cherry Trees
on Mazzard Roots, Hardy Evergreens, Flowering
Shrubs, Hedge Plants, etc. Originators of the

THOMAS BLACK WALNUT

JOS. W. THOMAS & SONS, King of Prussia P. O., MONTGOMERY CO., PENNA.

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