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pruning these broken ends are smoothly 

 severed with a sharp knife or shears; 

 and the pruner should so manage that 

 there will always be an abundance of 

 good young wood in the tree for fruit- 

 ing purposes. When a twig shows signs 

 of age the grower should prune so that 

 a fresh young one will succeed it in the 

 next year's cutting, so that worn-out 

 twigs will never be seen in old trees. 

 The trees should be so managed that at 

 the end of 100 years they should be 

 from 15 to 20 feet across the top but not 

 higher than six feet from the ground. 



It was also said that some fine nuts 

 were produced on trees of pyramid 

 form, 10 to 12 feet high, which have 

 their spurs shortened, thinned, etc., in 

 the same way as the basin-formed trees, 

 gaining a few inches of upward exten- 

 sion annually. 



The Kent filbert growers generally 

 were well agreed on the necessity and 

 great benefits of close and systematic 

 pruning both for quality of nuts and 

 for yield. 



Filbert orchards in Kent are kept in 

 good state of culture mainly by hand 

 cultivation, such as forking, hoeing, etc. 

 Some growers claimed that on account 

 of the shallow feeding habits of the fil- 

 bert tree, plowing would damage the 

 roots. However that may be, the low- 

 headed, spreading trees and the 

 crowded condition of the orchards gen- 

 erally made the ordinary methods of 

 cultivation hardly practicable or very 

 inconvenient to say the least. Suckers 

 were cleared out wherever they ap- 

 peared. 



I was told that the Kent filbert or- 

 chards received a dressing of barnyard 

 manure or other fertilizer whenever 

 required to keep the trees in good bear- 

 ing condition. 



The Kent filbert orchards were com : 

 paratively free from disease and insect 

 pests and I did not hear of any filbert 

 blight there. 



As to yields, it was said that one ton 

 of filbert nuts has frequently been ob- 

 tained from one acre, and as high a 

 yield as two and one-half tons per acre 

 has been recorded, but that was very 

 exceptional. The owner of a 300-acre 

 filbert plantation told me that he, in a 

 long run of years, had, in round num- 

 bers, harvested from 300,000 to 500,000 

 pounds of nuts a year, or from 1000 to 

 1607 pounds per acre. This probably 

 may be taken as a fair estimate of the 

 average yield of the filbert orchards in 

 Kent. 



The cob nuts and filberts grown in 

 Kent are cured and sold almost entirely 

 in the husk, and for this purpose it was 

 said that the nuts could be picked some- 

 what earlier than when husked. 



I have briefly described some of the 

 things which I saw and learned con- 

 cerning filbert culture in Kent. The 

 methods, practices and results obtained 

 in the culture of the filbert there are 

 certainly interesting and should be 

 carefully studied and investigated by us 

 with a view of adopting such of the 

 methods and practices as may be 

 thought beneficial and practical under 

 existing conditions and circumstances 

 in the Pacific Northwest. 



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