BETTER FRUIT 

 Western Nut Growers Discuss Their Problems 



THE annual meeting of the Western 

 Walnut Association held in Port- 

 land November 17 and 18 demonstrated 

 that although the walnut growing in- 

 dustry received a severe set-back during 

 the winter of 1919-1920, that growers 

 are undismayed and that many new 

 plantings will be made when the stock 

 is obtainable. The lesson learned 

 through the experience of the freeze 

 last winter is that safety demands that 

 walnuts be planted on the uplands 

 rather than on the lowlands. In the 

 Oregon walnut growing districts it was 

 stated that very little winter injury de- 

 veloped in the upland sections and that 

 the yield of nuts this year in many in- 

 stances was the largest on record. It 



was also shown by the data presented 

 that filberts are extremely hardy and 

 sustained little or no damage from the 

 extremely low temperatures. 



There were in attendance at the meet- 

 ing about 100 nut growers from Oregon 

 and the nearby states and many phases 

 of value to the industry discussed. 

 Among other important points brought 

 out was the fact that experts in passing 

 on the quality of nuts in the big 

 Eastern markets have stated that the 

 nuts grown in this section of the Paci- 

 fic Coast are superior to those grown 

 elsewhere and that there is an almost 

 unlimited market for them provided 

 that the cheap and inferior nuts from 

 foreign countries can be kept from com- 



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neting with the home grown article. 

 Even with this situation existing it was 

 declared that one firm in the East had 

 said that they could market annually 

 25,000,000 pounds of filberts of the qual- 

 ity grown in Oregon at profitable prices 

 if they could get them. 



Action taken at the meeting to aid the 

 industry was the appointment of a com- 

 mittee to re-classify filbert varieties and 

 with the view of obtaining a more sat- 

 isfactory nomenclature for this nut on 

 the Pacfic Coast than now exists; the 

 appointment of a legislative committee 

 to take up the matter of a tariff on im- 

 ported nuts and other matters and a 

 resolution asking the Oregon State 

 Highway Commission to change the 

 name of the Capital Highway to the 

 Walnut Highway and to plant walnut 

 trees along it. The county commission- 

 ers of the counties through which the 

 highway passes and the officials of the 

 various towns it touches are requested 

 by the resolution to co-operate toward 

 this end. 



J. C. Cooper, of McMinnville, Oregon, 

 the veteran president of the association 

 refusing to longer serve in this capacity, 

 H. A. Henneman, of Portland was elect- 

 ed to this office. The other officers 

 chosen are: Ferd Groner, Hillsboro, 

 vice-president for Oregon; A. A. Quarn- 

 berg, Vancouver, vice-president for 

 Washington; Ben F. Doris, Eugene, Ore- 

 gon, secretary-treasurer. 



Those who delivered addresses to the 

 convention were: Chas. Trunk, Dundee, 

 Ore., "The Development of the Walnut 

 Orchard"; A. M. Gray, Portland, Ore., 

 "The Commercial Filbert Grove of the 

 Pacific Northwest"; Knight Pearcy, Sal- 

 em, Ore., "Chestnut Growing"; D. F. 

 Fisher, Plant Pathologist U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture, "Winter Injury to Fruit 

 and Nut Trees"; Ferd Groner, Hills- 

 boro, Ore., "Lessons From the Decem- 

 ber Freeze"; R. A. Booth, State Highway 

 Commissioner, Eugene, Ore., "Nut Bear- 

 ing Trees Along Highways"; C. I. Lewis, 

 Organization Manager Oregon Grow- 

 ers' Co-operative 'Association, "Some 

 Observations on California Nut Culture 

 and Lessons We Here in the Northwest 

 Can Learn Therefrom"; Ben F. Doris, 

 Eugene, Ore., "Planting a Filbert Or- 

 chard"; A. A. Quarnberg, Vancouver, 

 Wash., "European Investigations"; H. 

 A. Henneman, Portland, Ore., "Fil- 

 berts"; W. S. Brown, Chief Division 

 Horticulture, Oregon Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



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