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heavy bearing trees, but from individual linil),s on those trees that are 

 good producers. While a majority of limbs will produce true there are 

 limbs that will produce irregular and inferior nuts, and also vary as to 

 the amount and the time they will come into bearing. I know of groves 

 that bore fair crops the fourth year after planting, and other groves 

 planted eight years that produced scarcely a nut. It is unfortunate for 

 the industry that many people in planting walnut groves think of how 

 cheap they can get the land and the trees. The first cost of choice land 

 and the best trees is one of the most profitable investments you can make, 

 as the income per acre under these conditions is two to four times as 



Fig. 35. — Eureka on first generation 

 hybrid root cut back when transplanted. 

 Throush neglect all shoots were allowed to 

 grow instead of choosing one shoot to make 

 the butt of tlie future tree and having all of 

 the growtli thrown into it. (Original.) 



great as under improper conditions, whik' the cost of planting and the 

 care, the taxes and iiilci-est on the investment would be the same yearly, 

 in each ease. 



VARIETIES. 



The first thing to be considered in judging the different varieties of 

 walnuts is their producing qualities. 1 do not mean by tliis a large pro- 

 ducer of an inferior nut. Init a heavy bearer of a good (juality nut. A 

 tree that produces only a few very fancy nuts is not to be considered 

 commercially. A fancy variety may bring a few cents a pound more, 

 and make up what it would lack in the number of pounds produced. 



