134 PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 
over the State, some of them of a size and quality that have been found 
acceptable even in the Liverpool market. 
The growth is scattered, the most of it being found near the Blue River, 
not far from Seward. There the trees grow from twenty to forty-eight inches 
in diameter, some of the logs cutting one thousand feet of lumber. 
The quality is all good and finds a ready market. The walnut lumber 
company has just shipped to Liverpool three carloads of logs that have been cut 
near Seward. 
In the early days of Kansas there were numerous black walnut trees of 
immense size growing in the rich bottom lands bordering the Kansas, Marais 
des Cygnes, and other rivers, undoubtedly planted by the Aborigines. 
The early settlers built many fences of solid logs of oak and walnut, not 
taking the trouble to split them into rails. But walnut had no value at that 
time, and the great prairies now so thickly settled were considered unin- 
habitable. 
It seems that Europe now demands all the walnut obtainable, while other 
more abundant woods have the run in American markets. 
The land owner who plants walnuts and takes care of them will have a 
competency in old age which can not be assured by any of the life insurance 
plans yet devised. 
A billion dollars can be added to the value of realty in the United States 
by the systematic planting upon the waste lands of American farms, the wal- 
nuts which go to waste in one year. 
Less than forty years ago the walnut, oak and other hard-wood trees 
which had covered the rich lands of the Kansas River and other streams of the 
State of Kansas, were cleared away entirely, the land having been farmed 
continuously for many vears. Yet to-day there are many walnut trees of from 
six to eighteen inches thickness, mingled with the fringe of timber which has 
grown up since that period. 
At Topeka, Lawrence, Junction City, and away out to the head waters of 
the Kansas streams there are walnut trees which have been planted naturally 
within the past few years. 
Usually these trees are in rather open woods or alone in fence corners, 
and naturally they are short-bodied, but by proper care with systematic plant- 
ing they would be tall and upright. 
For several hundred miles along the Union Pacific Railway, single trees 
and groves of walnut are frequent; scarcely a mile is traversed but they are 
in evidence. At shipping time many carloads of these nuts could be secured 
if proper efforts were made to save them. 
At Lawrence, Kan., a few days ago we saw quantities of walnut logs 
being hewn preparatory to ship out to Europe. Foreign buyers have the 
logs hewn or roughly squared for convenience of handling on steamships, 
