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  age 
  over 
  twenty 
  bushels, 
  which 
  was 
  worth 
  as 
  much 
  as 
  an 
  acre 
  of 
  

   corn 
  in 
  any 
  of 
  our 
  states. 
  Wherever 
  I 
  found 
  an 
  isolated 
  tree, 
  I 
  

   found 
  its 
  production 
  to 
  be 
  surprisingly 
  large, 
  and 
  I 
  got 
  my 
  infor- 
  

   mation 
  from 
  a 
  variety 
  of 
  sources. 
  It 
  seemed 
  to 
  be 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  

   important 
  forage 
  trees. 
  

  

  As 
  to 
  the 
  Persian 
  walnut, 
  it 
  is 
  reported 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  small 
  nut 
  of 
  almost 
  

   no 
  value 
  in 
  its 
  wild 
  state. 
  It 
  grows 
  around 
  the 
  world 
  between 
  the 
  

   belt 
  of 
  the 
  orange 
  and 
  the 
  belt 
  of 
  the 
  white 
  pine. 
  It 
  is 
  unknown 
  as 
  

   a 
  crop 
  in 
  large 
  areas 
  in 
  Europe, 
  where 
  it 
  might 
  be 
  grown 
  success- 
  

   fully. 
  In 
  Italy 
  there 
  is 
  only 
  an 
  occasional 
  tree, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  grown 
  

   much 
  in 
  Portugal 
  or 
  Spain. 
  

  

  It 
  has 
  centers 
  in 
  Europe 
  as 
  crops 
  have 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  and 
  

   for 
  the 
  same 
  reason 
  — 
  someone 
  started 
  the 
  industry. 
  The 
  activities 
  

   of 
  Mr. 
  Pomeroy 
  have 
  stimulated 
  its 
  growth 
  in 
  his 
  immediate 
  local- 
  

   ity. 
  When 
  any 
  one 
  succeeds 
  in 
  a 
  certain 
  line, 
  we 
  find 
  people 
  about 
  

   him 
  taking 
  up 
  the 
  same 
  line 
  and 
  they 
  conclude 
  that 
  this 
  product 
  can 
  

   only 
  be 
  produced 
  in 
  that 
  particular 
  locality. 
  This 
  is 
  usually 
  not 
  

   so 
  at 
  all. 
  The 
  thing 
  that 
  happened 
  was 
  that 
  some 
  one 
  showed 
  them 
  

   that 
  this 
  soil 
  would 
  produce 
  this 
  tiling. 
  Near 
  Naples 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  

   walnut 
  boom. 
  The 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  walnut 
  as 
  a 
  crop 
  is 
  shown 
  by 
  the 
  

   fact 
  that 
  market 
  gardens 
  producing 
  three 
  crops 
  a 
  year 
  under 
  irri- 
  

   gation 
  are 
  being 
  planted 
  to 
  English 
  walnuts. 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  told 
  time 
  

   and 
  again 
  that 
  this 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  profitable 
  crop. 
  In 
  this 
  walnut 
  district 
  

   they 
  have 
  planted 
  whole 
  hillsides 
  to 
  olives 
  and 
  walnuts 
  alternately, 
  

   sometimes 
  mixed 
  up, 
  sometimes 
  twenty 
  acres 
  solid. 
  In 
  some 
  places 
  

   they 
  can 
  only 
  be 
  cultivated 
  with 
  the 
  hoe, 
  a 
  very 
  distinctly 
  un-Ameri- 
  

   can 
  job, 
  and 
  yet 
  the 
  English 
  walnut 
  seems 
  to 
  pay 
  the 
  people 
  under 
  

   those 
  conditions 
  of 
  labor. 
  It 
  is 
  spreading 
  over 
  that 
  peninsula 
  and 
  

   you 
  find 
  it 
  spreading 
  in 
  the 
  lowlands. 
  They 
  trim 
  the 
  tree 
  up 
  to 
  

   twenty-five 
  feet, 
  so 
  that 
  teams 
  can 
  drive 
  below. 
  

  

  There 
  are 
  two 
  important 
  walnut 
  areas 
  in 
  France 
  ; 
  at 
  one 
  place 
  an 
  

   old 
  crank 
  named 
  Mayette 
  about 
  two 
  hundred 
  years 
  ago 
  found 
  a 
  

   good 
  walnut 
  and 
  he 
  grafted 
  some 
  and 
  planted 
  out 
  an 
  acre 
  or 
  two, 
  

   and 
  his 
  neighbors 
  planted 
  some, 
  especially 
  when 
  his 
  acre 
  or 
  two 
  

   began 
  to 
  grow, 
  with 
  the 
  result 
  that 
  the 
  territory 
  around 
  that 
  old 
  

   man's 
  planting 
  is 
  the 
  center 
  of 
  the 
  production 
  of 
  the 
  Grevoble 
  wal- 
  

   nut. 
  A 
  little 
  strip, 
  on 
  the 
  foothills 
  of 
  the 
  Alps 
  and 
  along 
  the 
  Isere 
  

   river 
  is 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  walnut 
  trees. 
  They 
  are 
  now 
  planting 
  these 
  

   trees 
  in 
  the 
  midst 
  of 
  the 
  best 
  vineyards. 
  In 
  a 
  field 
  of 
  wheat 
  often- 
  

   times 
  you 
  will 
  find 
  rows 
  of 
  little 
  wahiut 
  trees. 
  There 
  are 
  some 
  

   orchards 
  of 
  Persian 
  walnuts 
  in 
  this 
  locality 
  but 
  I 
  think 
  no 
  orchard 
  

   has 
  over 
  five 
  acres. 
  They 
  have 
  come 
  to 
  grief 
  along 
  a 
  line 
  that 
  is 
  

  

  