Jtdy, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



The Nut Industry of the Northwest 



By Knight Pearcy of Salem 



THE Northwest country of America can 

 produce commercially three varieties 

 of nuts, chestnuts, walnuts and filberts. The 

 nut producing sections of this region are 

 limited almost wholly to that part of the 

 states of Oregon and Washington located 

 west of the Cascade range. 



While there are few or no commercial 

 orchards of chestnuts of any considerable 

 size, still there are groups of trees scattered 

 pretty well over this whole region whose 

 performance is such as to warrant the be- 

 lief that chestnuts can be grown here com- 

 mercially in case the market demands are 

 such as to make such groves desirable. 



Near Salem is a planting of trees some 

 t^venty years of age. In spite of the fact 

 that these trees are planted much too close 

 together and that they have been given 

 poor care they average fifty pounds of nuts 

 per tree annually. Some of the trees have 

 produced 100 pounds and one yielded 150 

 pounds one season. Other small plantings 

 in the Willamette valley have done equ.illy 

 well. We can be assured of an average yield 

 of at least 1200 pounds per acre. Chestnuts 

 have brought twenty-five to forty cents per 

 pound to the grower on the Chicago market 

 in past years. 



The great native chestnut regions of the 

 East which have heretofore furnished the 

 needs of the American trade are fast van- 

 ishing as a result of a terrible disease which 

 has been killing off thousands of acres of 

 trees annually for the last twenty years. 

 Plant pathologists say that there is no hope 

 of saving these plantings and that it is im- 

 possible to grow commercial plantings in 



the area of the native chestnut since the dis- 

 ease spreads to the cultivated varieties, 

 with these nuts they must be either supplied 

 Hence if our markets are to be supplied 

 from foreign sources or else from a limited 

 section of the middle west in which the nut 

 is not native, or from our Pacific North- 

 west. 



There is no question as to whether we can 

 grow the nut here successfully. The ques- 

 tion to be decided is simply whether market 

 demands are such as to warrant planting the 

 orchards. The writer believes that in time 

 we will plant a limited acreage of chest- 

 nuts along with other nuts. 



The chestnut is easy to grow. It thrives 

 on a free soil where drainage is good. It 

 should be planted at thirty-five to forty 

 feet intervals. 



The walnut is a nut that has proved its 

 adaptability to conditions of this country. 

 It will some day be listed among our great 

 crops, along with the loganberry and the 

 prune. 



The United States has averaged annually 

 for the last ten years an importation of 

 18,000,000 pounds of unshelled walnuts 

 and 11,500,000 pounds of shelled walnuts. 

 California in 1919 produced 56,000,000 

 pounds. Consumption of nuts is increasing 

 very rapidly in this country. 



Oregon has about 8000 acres of walnuts. 

 Fifty per cent of this acreage will in all 

 probability develop into high grade proper- 

 ties. One may wonder why only half of the 

 total plantings of the state show prospect 

 of succeeding commercially. The reasons 

 are several. The walnut is not adapted to a 



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