SO closely associated with living. 



Safety is a social and economic responsibility* Discuss farm safety in the 

 family circle and in community gatherings of men, women and youth. Recognize the 

 hazards that surround us, and the willful or heedless risks to be avoided. Re- 

 move the hazards and establish habits of safety to avoid the risks. Risks taken 

 on the highway or the farm or even in the home too frequently cause injury or loss 

 of life to others and involve the family in economic loss or even grief. 



This is common knowledge among all of us, and yet the risk of children rid- 

 ing on tractors is taken to gratify their childish whims. Or permanent injury is 

 risked with machinery to save time - time too often spent in fruitless regret. 

 These are harsh reminders of many accidents which can be prevented by avoiding the 

 willful risk that endangers the life or the happiness of others. 



Let us begin this second decade of the nation-vd.de farm safety program with 

 the determination to safeguard all members of the family from every avoidable hazard 

 or risk. In the observance of National Farm Safety Week (July 2^-31) let us apply 

 the theme, "Farm to Live and Live to Farm" to planning for safety throughout the 

 year, 



C, M, Ferguson 



Administrator, Federal Extension Service 



U, S, Dept, of Agriciilture 



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The reader is at liberty to interpret the meaning of the title of this ar- 

 ticle as he chooses, but it actually refers to the subject of walnut growing. 



About five years ago the Pomology Department received an unsolicited letter 

 from Moses Adams of Salem, Oregon relative to the possibility of growing English 

 walnuts in Massachusetts, His interest in this project was prompted by the fact 

 that he is a native New Englander who, many years ago, migrated to Oregon and star- 

 ted a fruit and nut farm which has been eminently successful. Inasmuch as the 

 climate of Massachusetts is similar to that of Oregon and because of Mr, Adams's 

 conviction that walnuts could be grovm successfully here, he volunteered to send 

 the Pomology Department a few seedlings. His offer was accepted, the seedlings 

 arrived in due time, were planted in a nursery row, and have not only survived our 

 winters but have grovm vigorously. 



The origin of these seedlings is worthy of note. About 1927 Professor 

 Shuster of Oregon State College imported two walnut trees from Ifanchuria, One of 

 these trees he gave to Mr, Adams, Subsequently, this tree bore fruit and from it 

 Mr, Adams has grown many seedlings which in t\xrn have fruited. One of these seed- 

 lings bore nuts of exceptionally fine quality so this was given the name of Adams 

 and has been assigned to the Horticultural Department of Oregon State College for 

 preservation of the variety. 



This spring the original seedlings received by the Pomology Department were 

 moved from the nursery rovf to a permanent location, Mr, Adams sent us scions of 

 three varieties which include Adams, Manchurian and Manchurian Franquette, These 

 have been grafted into the original seedlings. Providing the grafting is suoc^'^s- 

 fMl and the plants continue to thrive as in the past, we can hope for a crop '.:? 

 walnuts in about six years. The possibilities look promising at the present tlir.e. 



