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\vidc range of conditions as are the prune, 

 loganberry or filbert. It does very well 

 when conditions favor it, but it is a waste 

 of money to try to make it grow where con- 

 ditions are unfavorable. .\ large amount of 

 money has been wasted b\- trying to grow 

 nut groves in locations where air or water 

 drain.ige is poor or where the soil is shallow. 

 Others lost out by planting inferior trees or 

 inferior varieties and still others by not 

 properly caring for their trees after they 

 were planted. The young walnut tree re- 

 quires a lot of babying. 



AIR drainage is of first Importance in 

 selecting a site for a walnut grove. Ws 

 know of one grove that has lost crops in 

 recent years from both late spring frosts 

 and from early fall frosts. The hill lands 

 are general] v well drained both in respect 

 to air and water, but it does not always 

 follow that because a site is in the hills 

 that such is the case. 



The walnut grows to be a large tree and 

 is a heavy feeder and thrives much in pro- 

 portion to the depth and fertility of its 

 soil. The white, poorly drained, level lands 

 should never be planted to nuts. The river 

 bottoms will grow a fine tree and grow it 

 more rapidly than will the hills, but they 

 are more subject to frost than are the hills. 

 Some locations along the river bottoms seem 

 much more frost free than are others and 

 on these nut growing may be successful. 

 They will usually be hit by frost more 

 often than will the hills, but they will yield 

 larger crops and will bear commercially a 

 little earlier when the frosts do not inter- 

 fere. 



The hill lands are the safest for heavy 

 plantings, especially where the walnut is 

 to be a major crop. Where filberts are to 

 be the major crop and walnuts a minor 

 crop the river bottom soils are best. The 

 hills generally are more free from frost, 

 but are more difficult of cultivation, mois- 



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ture is more difficult to hold and often the 

 soils are less fertile. 



While the walnut is not native to our 

 Northwest country it, nevertheless, finds 

 conditions here congenial. Nowhere in the 

 world is a walnut produced which excels 

 our properly grown and properly cured 

 Kranquettes. Too few of our growers un- 

 derstand how to harvest and dry the nut. 

 As it falls off the tree the Oregon walnut 

 has no superior, but poor handling often 

 reduces it to a cull product by the time 

 it reaches the market. By running the tem- 

 perature a little too high or a little too low 

 in drying the quality of the nut can be seri- 

 ously injured, and by not properly washing 



Juhi, 1921 



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