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WALNUTS. 



1902-3, 1903-4, 1904-5, 1905-6, 1906-7, 



Ibs. Ibs. Ibs. Ibs. Ibs. 



Imported 12.362.5*7 23,670,761 21,684,104 ! 



Home grown 17,140.000 11,000,000 15,180,000 12.800,000 12,000,000 



Total 29.502.567 34,670.761 36,864.104 37.717.02S 44, r.i>7. :.:_' 



These figures appear to indicate an increasing consumption of 

 almonds and especially of walnuts and though the data on other nuts 

 are lacking there has unquestionably been larger consumption of pecans, 

 filberts, chestnuts and peanuts in recent years and a considerably in- 

 creased home production. It should be noted that we are still importing 

 much the larger portion of the almonds and walnuts that we are con- 

 suming, domestic production not having yet overtaken home consump- 

 tion. 



Our total imports and exports of nuts for the last year were as 

 follows : 



IMPORTS OF NUTS, FISCAL YEAR 1906-7. 



Pounds, Value. 



Almonds 14,233,613 $2,331,816 



Cocoanuts, free 1,349,562 



Cocoanut meat, broken, or copra, not shredded, 



desiccated or prepared, free 7,064,532 302,132 



Cream and Brazil, free 252,538 650,488 



Palm and palm nut kernels, free 39,329 



Walnuts, dutiable 32,597,592 2,969,649 



All other free 



All other dutiable 2,100,274 



Total imports $9,743,250 



EXPORTS OF DOMESTIC NUTS, FISCAL YEAR 1906-7. 



Peanuts 6,386,012 Ibs. $278,236 



All other 103,929 



Total exports $382,165 



Of the large number of species of nuts that enter into consumption 

 in this country those that appear to offer greatest promise to the 

 grower are the almond, Persian walnut, pecan, Japanese and European 

 chestnuts. The efforts at filbert culture thus far made in the United 

 States have not warranted extensive commercial plantings though the 

 impossibility of profitable filbert culture has by no means been demon- 

 strated. The improvement of the native chestnut and chinkapin, the 

 Eastern and the California black walnuts, the butternut, the shagbark 

 and the shellbark is well worthy of the attention of the amateur and 

 the breeder. 



Two species, the almond and the Persian walnut, may be said to be 

 upon a sound economic cultural basis on the Pacific coast, and one 



