PLANTING. 



Ths nuts may be planted either in the fall or in the spring 

 with equaii3 r good results. The fall planting should be done 

 any time after the nuts are gathered up to the time the ground 

 freezes. The spring planting should be done as soon as the 

 ground is in a workable condition. The danger in delaying 

 planting until later in the season is that the nuts begin to 

 sprout soon after they thaw out, and once through the shell 

 the sprout is easily broken off. It is also necessary to exer- 

 cise due precaution to prevent the nuts from becoming dry 

 after they have been stratified as the germ is then very delicate 

 and easily injured. 



WHERE AND HOW TO PLANT. 



The ground in which walnuts are to be planted should be 

 thoroughly cultivated for two or three years before the nuts, 

 are planted as the trees will not make a satisfactory growth in 

 virgin soil. The Black Walnut is a tree that requires the 

 deepest, richest soil that can be found along creek and river 

 valleys for its best development, yet at the same time it makes 

 a very satisfactory growth on the prairie soil of the eastern 

 part of the state. In the western part of the state the planters 

 should select the low ground along ravines for planting sites 

 when possible. 



The nuts should be planted three feet apart in furrows ten 

 feet apart and not more than four inches in depth. After the 

 nuts are planted the furrows may be filled in with a cultivator. 

 It is not necessary or even desirable to level the ground more 

 than is required to securely cover the nuts. If the furrows 

 are not leveled they will catch the excess surface water in 

 times of heavy rainfall. 



If the nuts cannot be planted in furrows the next best plan 

 is to plant them in seed spots. Seed spots are places where 

 several nuts are planted in an area sixteen or eighteen feet in 

 diameter to ultimately form a small group of trees. The 

 ground for such planting should be spaded and pulverized so 

 as to increase the moisture-holding capacity of the soil, and 

 from six to ten seeds should be planted in each seed spot. 



CULTIVATION AND CARE. 



On account of the Black Walnut being a lover of moist, rich 

 soils it is very sensitive to dry, parched conditions. It is 

 therefore very necessary to give the seedling trees the best of 



