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cicnt iiuiiibtTs of \ .irittics have not hLcii ])1 ;iitttl together to ensure 

 interpollinatioii. or Japanese chestnuts li.uc been ])lanted. Early 

 planters were evidently not aware tliat most \arieties are largely self- 

 sterile^ and they did not know tli.it the average Japanese chestnuts 

 are fit for consumption only when cooked. Had these two facts been 

 taken into consideration by them, it is not improbable that there would 

 now have been an entirely ditfcrent situation regarding the chestnut 

 in that p.art of the country. 



The Secretary: 1 have a few more reports. Is it the senti- 

 nunt of the meeting that I go on reading them? 



Mr. Reed: I would like to hear the reports. 



The Secretary: Kniglit Pearri/, from Salem, Oregon, writes: 



"Both filbert and walnut planting ha\e continued in Oregon dur- 

 ing the past year. There has been a steady increase in the acreage of 

 these two nut crops during the past five years but. fortunatelj'. no 

 planting boom. 



The older walnut orchards are almost all seedling groves and 

 many of these seedling groves are jDroducing a very attractive revenue. 

 Practically all of the new plantings are of grafted trees^ it having 

 been amply demonstrated that, while seedlings are often revenue pro- 

 ducers, the grafted orchards bring in more revenue and at no greater 

 cost of operation. Seedling orciiards are offered for sale, but very few 

 grafted plantings are on tlie market. Tlie Franquette continues to 

 be the principal tree planted, probably 95% of the new plantings 

 being of this variety. 



A co-operative walnut marketing association has been formed, and 

 this year for the first time carlot shi])ments of Oregon nuts will be 

 sent East. 



The filbert, a younger member of the Oregon horticultural family 

 than the walnut, is being planted as heavily as the walnut, if nof more 

 heavily. Probably 60,000 trees were planted in the Willamette Valley 

 of Oregon last year. Production of filberts has not yet become heavy 

 enough to su]>))ly home markets. It will probably be some time before 

 Oregon filberts reach eastern markets. 



No other nuts are grown commercially in the state, although the 

 chestnut does well here." 



Mr. T. C. Tucker, State rice-President from California, writes: 

 "The jarincipal consideration in relation to the California nut situa- 

 tion is a recognition of the tremendous increase in planting within the 

 last ten years. INIany of these newly planted orchards have already 

 come into bearing. The marketable almond tonnage of California has 

 increased' until it is now over three times that of ten years ago. The 

 walnut tonnage has dou'bled during the same period. 



