January, 1928 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page Twenty-three 



Harvesting Profits From 

 Walnuts 



(Continued from fage 6) 



of course, one has suitable land, properly 

 located: 



"Planting a walnut grove is like taking 

 out life insurance with this difference — 

 if you have a twenty year policy you pay \ 

 certain amount each year for twenty years; 

 If you plant a walnut grove you pay a cer- 

 tain amount in cultivation, work and capi- 

 tal invested, for 10 or 11 years. Af tei 

 this your trees will pay your yearly dues. 

 In 20 years you will have a piece of prop- 

 erty worth from $1000 to $1500 an acre. 

 "There is no surer investment, provided 

 the trees have the best care. I know 1 or 

 12 years is a long wait, and this is one of 

 the reasons this line of horticulture is not 

 further advanced in this state; but, if we 

 consider the long life of the tree, it is a 

 short time after all. If only the people of 

 this state would realize the opportunities 

 of making money by the growing of wal- 

 nuts, our hillsides would be one continuous 

 walnut grove. The time is surely coming 

 when the growing of walnuts will be one 

 of the greatest assets the state has." 



Such is the opinion of Mr. Trunk, after 

 spending 1 5 years in the game. Readers 

 will doubtless be interested in knowing 

 something of the history of his operations 

 and his observations, as to cultural methods. 

 For one thing, he urges good cultivation. 

 It is imperative, he says, that the trees be not 

 neglected the first seven or eight years. 



Location of the grove is another impor- 

 tant point. Some groves about Dundee, 

 planted at too low an elevation, were ruined 

 in the severe winter of 1919. 



The record of Mr. Trunk's experience 

 with walnut plantings may well be given 

 in his own language, as reported to the 1920 

 annual session of the Oregon State Horti- 

 cultural Society: 



"At my home place, on the road between 

 Dundee and Dayton, about 70 acres is a- 

 dapted to the growing of walnuts. The 

 remainder of the land lies from 25 to 50 

 feet too low. The trees on this lower land 

 grow well, but the crop is not so sure. Ev- 

 ery year there is a certain amount of dan- 

 ger of having nuts frosted either in the 

 spring or fall, whereas, on the higher land, 

 we have never had any damage and are cer- 

 tain of a full crop of nuts each year. 



AS MANY KNOW, one of the oldest 

 and largest walnut groves in the state 

 is at Dundee, planted by Thomas Prince. 

 As my land and soil were similar to that 

 of the Prince place, I decided to plant 10 

 acres. This was in 1906, when walnut 

 growing was still an experiment here. 



"Many started to plant when I did. 

 Some became discouraged the first and sec- 

 ond years, and the others fell by the way- 

 side the following years. Today there are 

 about a dozen of the old faithful growers 

 left, and I respect these men who had the 



staying quality to wait and see what the 

 nut tree would really do in this state. We 

 have proved that in this valley walnuts can 

 be grown on a paying basis, and that they 

 are better filled in and better flavored thai' 

 in any other place on the face of the earth. 



"Last year, (1919), we took from 26 ac- 

 res of nut trees, averaging 1 1 years old, 

 $4200 worth of nuts, which is 165^ per 

 cent on land valued at $1000 an acre. Less 

 than $700 covered all expenses of cultiva- 

 tion, harvesting and drying. This year, 

 (1920) on account of lower prices, our in- 

 come will not be quite as large — only about 

 \2y2 per cent on a $1000 per acre valua- 

 tion. 



"Please bear in mind that these trees are 

 still very young. The life of the prune 

 tree is about 35 years; that of a walnut 

 tree about 250 years. So, when a nut tree i= 

 50 years old, it is still in its childhood days." 



Returns from the increased acerage of 

 nuts Mr. Trunk had this past year will be 

 about comparable to those of 1920. He 

 has sold most of his grafted nuts at the 

 gratifying price of $700 a ton, or 35 centf 

 a pound. 



While he now has 38 acres of trees of 

 bearing age, he has additional acerage 



planted which will bring the total to 70 

 acres. In about 28 acres of the plantings, 

 prune trees have been used as a filler. 



This constant expansion of plantings and 

 holdings bears the best of evidence as to 

 Mr. Trunk's faith in the future of Eng- 

 lish walnut culture in this state. 



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