OREGON WALNUTS 



Walnut trees in their prime. 



of the tender, inferior grades, and the winter of nineteen eight 

 fortunately destroyed a large percentage of such trees. With 

 the introduction of superior French strains, the industry became 

 firmly established, until now we have thousands of acres just 

 coming into bearing, producing nuts that are selling as high 

 as thirty- five cents per pound. A list of some of the larger 

 plantings is given in the back of this bulletin. 



The present consumption of the English walnut in the 

 United States is only about 50,000,000 pounds this being only 

 about one-half pound for each person in our great country. 

 Of these nuts, 22,026,524 pounds are raised in the United States 

 and during the past few years an average of about 30,000,000 

 pounds has been imported. Of these 22,026,524 pounds that 

 are produced in this country, California is producing 21,432,266 

 pounds, Mississippi 66,492 pounds, Oregon 79,060 pounds, and 

 all other states 448,706 pounds. There are at present in the 

 United States 914,270 bearing English walnut trees, while 

 806,413 are still too young to bear. This is according to the 

 United States census of 1910. While Oregon has a very small 

 percentage of bearing walnut trees, it has, nevertheless, about 

 one-fourth of the young trees of the entire United States that 

 have not reached bearing age. 



The most encouraging fact concerning English walnuts is 



