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Production of the Walnut in the Northwest 



By Ferd Groner, 



AS the wjihuit intkistry is compara- 

 tively new in the Northwest, the 

 question has been often asked, "What 

 income can we expect per tree or per 

 acre from orchards at different ages, 

 and what it costs to bring an orchard 

 up to a paying basis'?" Last year a 

 paper read before the Oregon State 

 Horticultural Society on the (luestion 

 of co.st and pro(kiction seemed to me 

 so pessimistic that 1 set myself about 

 to gather figures on cost and actual 

 returns. The question of how many 



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With the fruitgrower is, how can he derive 

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It can be done. It is being done. How? By 

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Hillsdale, Oregon 



trees to the acre has been argued con- 

 siderably, and we find orchards planted 

 all the way from thirty to sixty feet 

 apart, some with fillers of peaches, 

 prunes or cherries and some without. 



After years of study I favor iilanting 

 forty feet square without fillers, if 

 financial returns are to be considered. 

 1 will not go into detail in regard to 

 price of land or machinery, as it would 

 vary greatly in different localities, but 

 the cost of first-class trees set in the 

 ground, counting plowing and prepara- 

 tion of the soil, should not exceed -$45 

 per acre. In my six years of experience 

 in intercropping between the trees I 

 have made careful estimates of what it 

 will cost to bring an orchard up to the 

 bearing age, and have raised kale, corn, 

 rape, potatoes, peas, vetches mixed with 

 oats, and wheat and pumpkins. If the 

 trees are staked, hogs do very little or 

 no damage to the young trees, and I 

 often have a large herd iiasturing on 

 the rape or vetches while feeding 

 pumpkins or cull potatoes. By culti- 

 vating clean during spring and summer 

 from one-third to one-half of the 

 ground along the trees, according to 

 age, the other one-half or two-thirds 

 can be made to pay the whole cost of 

 cultivation. While I do not wish to 

 take lime to go info this question in 

 detail, as if would take too long, I do 

 not hesitate to sa>- that 1 can show 

 figures leaving a safe net return, alxive 

 cost of cuffivafion and training. 



In regard to production per acre, 

 imich depends on the number of frees 

 that are planted, .^n orchard iilanted 

 thirty feet apart might be prolitable at 

 ten or eleven years old, while one 

 planted sixty feet apart may be still an 

 expense, as one would have four times 

 as many trees as the other, and this 



close or wide planting must be taken 

 info consideration, if you do not want 

 to wait long for net returns. As the 

 trees grow older the dillerence between 

 the cfose and wide planting will grad- 

 ually grow less, and possibly would be 

 about the same at twenty-five years. 

 We liave no grafted orchards in the 

 Xorlhwest old enough to estimate from, 

 and only a few in California that we 

 can gel some idea from. But we have 

 ipiite a number of toi)worked large 

 frees tliat are showing their bearing 

 quaiities. .\mong these frees are the 

 Franqueffe, Mayette, Meylan, Glady and 

 Payne. The Franqueffe, Meylan and 

 Glady bear about afike in quantity. 

 The Franqueffe seems to be by far tlie 

 best on account of the uniformity of 

 its large, fine nuts. The Meylan is a 

 fine looking nut and of excellent qual- 

 ity, but has the fault of having too 

 many small ones when the trees are 

 heavily loaded. The Payne blooms too 

 early in the Northwest. While the 

 Mayetfe scions were secured from dif- 

 ferent sources, they are all of true type, 

 but have not yielded up to our expec- 

 tations. 



A seedling Mayette in the orchard of 

 B. N. Sturgis at Vancouver, Washington, 



W. van Diem 



Lange Franken Straat 45. 47, 49, 51, 61 



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 ABC Code used; 5th Edition 



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