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or by keeping in sacks too long after picking 

 and before drying, the shell may become so 

 discolored as to put the nut into the cull 

 grade. One great advantage to our growers 

 who live in centers where the Oregon 

 Growers' Association has drying plants is 

 that they may have their nuts washed and 

 dried by experts equipped with suitable 

 machinery. 



The commercial success of a crop depends 

 largely upon its yield. The walnut yields 

 well in this favored horticultural paradise. 

 There is a big black walnut tree near Hills- 

 boro which has been worked over to Eng- 

 lish walnuts and which bore 408 pounds of 

 nuts one year. 



An orchard in the Sheridan highlands 

 produced 25 pounds per tree of dried nuts 

 the ninth year, which gives the lie to the 

 statement that in planting walnuts one is 

 planting for his children rather than for 

 himself. Another orchard at Wheatland on 

 sandy river bottom land bore 5 00 pounds 



per acre the tenth year. These two plant- 

 ings are grafted orchards and have been 

 well cared for. There is a twenty-one-year- 

 old planting of seedlings at Jefferson which 

 averaged 1000 pounds per acre in 1919 and 

 this from an orchard which was given al- 

 most no care at all for many years. The 

 average production per acre in California 

 for the state at large is 800 pounds, al- 

 though there are plantings which have 

 yielded as high as 400 pounds per acre. 



Walnut trees should be planted fifty to 

 sixty feet apart in order that they may not 

 become too crowded in later years. As it 

 takes a good many years for the trees to 

 grow to a size which will utilize this 

 amount of space it is considered good prac- 

 tice to plant between the walnut trees a 

 variety of fruit which comes into bearing 

 young and which does not grow to a large 

 size. The prune and the filbert are best 

 adapted for this purpose. 



While the walnut is a little slow to come 



into bearing it still makes a very nice crop 

 to grow. With the filbert it appeals espe- 

 cially to the city man who wishes to retire 

 to country life, in that these two crops can 

 be produced with less attention to such de- 

 tails as thinning and spraying and are much 

 easier to harvest than the more perishable 

 fruits. 



TY7"HILE the walnut offers many advant- 

 » » ages the filbert offers still more and 

 is, in our mind, the most attractive orchard 

 crop in the Northwest, bar none. 



Among its advantages is the fact that it 

 blossoms in winter and the pollenization is 

 in little danger of injury from winter rain 

 or frost. The tree is adaptable to a large 

 variety of soils and locations. Its crop is 

 easily and cheaply harvested, no expensive 

 driers or harvesting equipment or large 

 crews of pickers being needed. There is no 

 spraying to amount to anything and no 

 thinning and there are few insects and dis- 



.Vrescuate of LciJ 

 No Spreader. 



Reary for use. Simply stir into the spray solution 



"SPREADO" produces a uniform coating, completely 



protecting the fruit. 



"SPREADO" increases the adhesiveness of the spray, 



especially desirable in rainy sections. 



"SPRE.ADO" increases the wetting and covering 



power of the spray, more than paying for itself in 



the saving of spray material. 



"SPREADO" does iH)t in any way Injure the foliage 



or the fruit. 



"SPRE.ADO" is highly recommended as a spreader by 



the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station. 



DIRECTIONS 



When the spray tank is nearly filled, start the agi- 

 tator and sift in slowly the required amount of 

 "SPREADO." Keep the agitator in motion. 

 "SPRE.ADO" is especially recommended for use with 

 arsenate of lead for the cover sprays in the propor- 

 tion of 5 to 6 lbs. of powdered arsenate of le.id with 

 2 lbs. of "SPREADO" to the 200 gallon tank. 



Arsen.Ue of Lead 

 With "Spreado." 



NOW ^f'S" SPREADO" 



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