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vrere produced -nd in 1922 $(iO worth of nuts and $30 worth of trees. 



In the jiresident's own filbert nursery at Rochester over .300 ponuds 

 of fine nuts were produced for wliich ."}() cents a jiound were offered 

 by grocerynien. 



Mr. W. R. Mattoon of the Forest Service of the U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture spoke as follows : 



Two years ago. when the Forest Service was planning to get up a 

 bulletin on growing walnut trees for timber, we found the need to 

 include information on the nuts also. Mr. C. A. Reed and I together 

 prepared a manuscript on growing the walnut tree both for timber and 

 for nuts. 



It pays to grow walnuts in small groups and singly, rather than in 

 large blocks, for while they have not proven altogether failures when 

 planted in large quantities they have been disippointing. Many of 

 the trees which we planted as close as 6x8 feet several years ago, 

 have not given very satisfactorv results beciuse they have not had 

 enougli light and air. The black walnut grows singly in the forest, 

 although there may be full stands of other trees around it. Our idea 

 is to recommend planting the black walnut in spots around on the farm, 

 in little inaccessible places and on the hillsides, where the soil is good; 

 for the black walnut requires good soil, and we cannot find that quality 

 in large patches, nor is it usual on slopes of ground. So we must put 

 it here and there on the farm, along the fence rows and in various 

 places, but not in groups. The farmer planting in this way becomes 

 its wood which is used in the most expensive furniture. I believe 

 that mahogany is the only other wood so valuable. On tlie other side 

 of the world they have the mahogany tree for cabinet use, and here in 

 America we have the black walnut, a cabinet wood th^t is not surpassed. 



The present available publications on this subject are limited but 

 we are referring people who inquire about it to Department of Agri- 

 culture Bulletin No. 933, "The Black \^'alnut. Its Growth and Manage- 

 ment." That is midway between a technical and a popular bulletin, 

 and it comprises about the only available jniblication that we have at 

 the present time on the subject of growing the tree. Farmers' Bulletin 

 No. 1123. "Growing and Planting Hardwood Seedlings on the Farm", 

 deals with the black walnut along with other trees. Another publica- 

 tion is Department of Agriculture Bulletin No. 1.53, "Forest Planting 

 in the Eastern United States," which considers the black walnut along 

 with the other available trees for planting. 



