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sixty feet in height and spread, that yield six to 

 eight hundred pounds of nuts per tree. 



Compute the market value of that crop at 

 the retail price your grocer charges. Charge half 

 to cost of raising the crop and getting it to the 

 wholesaler. Then you can understand why wal- 

 nut growing is an industry that is spreading 

 rapidly into new territory. 



I think it must add to a walnut farmer's satis- 

 faction to look back along the trail that brought 

 this tree from the wild woods of Persia to the 

 garden-orchards of his San Fernando Valley, 

 behind Los Angeles, and to know that it is more 

 than ever before a tree that bears nuts "fit for 

 kings' tables." No longer is it what the name 

 walnut means, "a nut from a far country," but a 

 home-grown product of American orchards, and 

 cheap enough so that the people can use it as an 

 everyday food, more wholesome and better in all 

 ways than meat. 



The wood of the English walnut is beautiful 

 and valuable, the best in the world for gunstocks. 

 Once there was a craze for walnut furniture in 

 Europe that lasted until mahogany, from Central 

 American forests, set fashion chasing after the 

 newest thing. The wars between European 

 nations exhausted the marketable walnut lumber, 



