BOARD OF HORTICULTURE 



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NUT IMPORTS 



(From the American Nut Journal) 



Walnuts 



Year Lbs. Unshelled 



1905 16,311,138 



1906 15.029,724 



1907 23,030.646 



1908 21,427,853 



1909 17,432,885 



1910 23.269.974 



1911 21,146,116 



1912 22.208,845 



1913 16,363,046 



1914 16,134,211 



1915 20.988,326 



1916 13,445,790 



1917 13,706,614 



1918 3,304,003 



1919 21,235,078 



Note the decrease during war period. 



FUberts 

 Year Lbs. Unshelled 



1905 6,669,857 



1906 13,414,887 



1907 9,960,280 



1908 8,997,246 



1909 7.365.837 



1910 10.026.961 



1911 10.084,987 



1912 8,375,860 



1913 8,586.278 



1914 10,836,072 



1915 10,922.248 



1916 10.003,552 



1917 :. 16.468,547 



1918 7.432,534 



1919 16,747,304 



Lbs. Shelled 



4,178,010 



4,948,174 



7,199,988 



7,098,958 



8,781,908 



10,960,988 



11,244,054 



10,713.286 



10.093.622 



11,636,053 



10,552,956 



18,445,790 



13,706,614 



9,707,401 



10,260,899 



Lbs. Shelled 

 915,227 

 1,155,734 

 1,553,332 

 1,343,594 

 1,384.689 

 1,413,391 

 2.332.606 

 1,368,835 

 1,450.620 

 1,798,147 

 1,722,705 

 1,259,540 

 2,280,787 

 4.245,863 

 3,778,986 



FILBERT CLLTURE IN OREGON 

 By A. M. Gray 



The filbqrt belongs to the hazel family of plants. Through many generations 

 of men, the filbert has been improved by selection and cultivation, until now we 

 have a plant that grows into a very respectable tree. 



Here in Oregon we have a few trees with the trunks a foot in diameter, and 

 a good many with trunks eight to ten inehes in diameter. 



In England, I am told, there are filbert trees 100 years old with trunks two 

 to three feet in diameter. In this work of development, man was looking for 

 more than mere size of tree ; he was looking for quality and quantity of the nut. 

 I do not know what the production is in the countries around the Mediterraneaa 

 Sea and in France and England (the home of the filbert), but I do know that 

 there are a good many trees here in Oregon that yield regularly from 20 to 50 

 pounds per tree, and I have heard of even larger yields. 



Up to the present time, the business of growing filberts in Oregon may be 

 Said to have been in the experimental stage. but from actual results in the oldest 

 of the small groves, it is fair to conclude that the business is now on an estab- 



