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In 1904— Not shelled, 8,042,692 pounds; shelled, 695,315 pounds; total, 

 8,738,008 pounds. 



In 1905— Not shelled, 6,669,857 pounds; shelled, 915,227 pounds; total, 

 7,585,089 pounds. 



Again, are not such figures quite encouraging for the raising of 

 filberts in this country, especially in the Northwest, that seems to be 

 wonderfully adapted to the raising of that nut? But let me tell your 

 readers to be slow in believing too exaggerated reports on the yield of 

 filbert trees, as well as that of any other nut trees, which is all done for 

 a purpose; what you want are true facts about the nut business, new to 

 so many of your people. I have taken the pains to find out how filberts 

 do in Oregon and Washington, since I consider these two States emi- 

 nently adapted to filbert culture, and better than any other States in the 

 Union; so I will quote from a recent letter of Mr. A. A. Quarnberg, of 

 Vancouver, Washington, a member of the County Board of Horticulture, 

 and whom I regard as a responsible and reliable person, and who eleven 

 years and five years ago had planted on his place 300 filbert trees, Du 

 Chilly Cobnut and Barcelona, the following extract: 



Last winter you requested me to give you an estimate of the yield of 

 my filbei't trees, and having made careful notes of their yield the present 

 year (1905), I now have the pleasure of giving you the following re- 

 sults: Well-loaded five-year-old trees yielded about five pounds each, 

 and I think it is safe to say that for each additional year in ag'J the 

 increase in yield was about one pound per year, at least as old as I 

 have the trees; my eleven-year-old Du Chilly Cobnut trees yielding 

 •eleven pounds to the tree. The yields you mentioned reported by certain 

 nurserymen are undoubtedly much exaggei'ated, as my eleven-year-old 

 trees had what I call a good crop this year. After the formation of 

 the head I have not pruned nor thinned my filbert trees worth men- 

 tioning. I notice the same tendency by many to exaggerate the yield 

 of walnut trees. My eleven-year-old walnut trees bought from you 

 averaged this year about twenty-five pounds to the tree, and I call that 

 doing well. While I know individual trees have done a great deal better, 

 I think twenty-five pounds average is good enough for eleven-year-old 

 trees. My eleven-year-old walnut trees are now about three feet in 

 circumference near the sui'face of the ground, about two feet in circum- 

 ference four feet up; they are fully twenty-five feet high and twenty 

 feet across the crown. 



I have from another source more figures to give you as to the doing 

 of filberts and walnuts, also in the vicinity of Vancouver, where Mr. 

 Henry J. Biddle, of Portland, planted a grove of walnuts and filberts, 

 all furnished by me, some twelve, ten, seven and four years ago. Mr. 

 Biddle never tried to find out what the yield of his filbert trees amounted 

 to apiece, so he gave me only a rough estimate. I will quote from 

 his letter: 



The twelve-year-old Barcelona must have had twenty-five to thii-ty 

 pounds apiece (last year somewhat less) ; the Du Chilly Cobnut, ten to 

 fifteen pounds. The Avelines bore very heavily the past year, but I can 

 not give any estimate of their weight. The bluejays got away with 

 practically all my Avelines. The Du Chilly Cobnuts were very large 



