The Northern Nut Growers Association 



How It Can Help You 



T.HIRTY years ago Adelbert Thoin- 

 | son of Livingston County, N. Y., 

 j planted an orchard with hope, 

 Fl faith and 200 English walnut trees. 

 About the same time J. G. Rush of 

 Lancaster County, Pa., set two seedling wal- 

 nut trees and began his fruitful experi- 

 ments; and Henry Hales of New Jersey 

 was patiently and persistently seeking some 

 one who could graft shagbark hickories. 

 Ten years later Joel Garretson of Adams 

 County, Pa., sent to California and got 

 some English walnut scions which he graft- 

 ed on black walnut trees successfully, and 

 a similar thing was done_ at Hainesport, 

 N. J. 



So, all over the East, an increasing num- 

 ber of men and women have been making 

 experiments in nut growing without knowl- 

 edge of the work of others and therefore 

 needlessly repeating costly and time con- 

 suming experiments. It is only since the 

 Northern Nut Growers Association began 

 its activities in 1910 that any of these peo- 

 ple had knowledge of the existence of the 

 others. Many people have tried to grow the 

 southern pecan in the North, each learn- 

 ing for himself that it can't be done. Hun- 

 dreds of people have tried to perpetuate 

 valuable native nut trees by planting the 

 nuts, not knowing how to graft the trees 

 and not knowing that nuts do not come 

 true to seed. Many people have been led by 

 advertisements to pay extravagant prices 

 for seedling nut trees, not knowing that 

 all seedling trees are lotteries. The North- 

 ern Nut Growers Association now hooks up 

 Mr. Thomson of New York and Mr. Rush 

 of Pennsylvania, gives them both the ben- 

 efit of the work of Mr. Garretson and all 

 others, and saves them serious and expens- 

 ive mistakes. 



It was organized in 1910 by the late Prof. 

 John Craig of Cornell University, Dr. Rob- 

 ert T. Morris, eminent surgeon of New 

 York city, Mr. T. P. Littlepage, prominent 

 lawyer of Washington, D. C, Prof. C. P. 

 Close, now Pomologist of the U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture, the writer and others. Wom- 

 en, farmers, nurserymen, teachers and 

 many other walks of life are represented in 

 its membership. Its objects are chiefly edu- 

 cational and scientific, "the promotion of 

 interest in nut bearing plants, their prod- 

 ucts and their culture," though most of the 

 members are themselves growing nuts. 

 Membership is open to any person and 

 there are no paid officers. 

 ACCOMPLISHMENTS. Coordination of ex- 

 perimenters, amateurs, planters and nur- 

 serymen, by annual and summer meetings, 



an annual report and an official monthly 

 journal devoted exclusively to nuts. 



Public education by circulars, magazine 

 articles, lectures, correspondence and prize 

 nut contests. 



Discovery and preservation by propaga- 

 tion of valuable nut trees. 



Evolution of methods of propagating nut 

 trees. 



Interesting agricultural colleges, schools 

 of forestry and agricultural experiment sta- 

 tions in nut growing. 



Warnings against unscrupulous nursery- 

 men. 



Finding out some things not to be done. 

 NEEDS. We need new members to help in 

 this work, to be on the watch for nuts 

 worth propagating, to experiment on the 

 adaptation of varieties to different locali- 

 ties. You can't know all that is going on in 

 nut culture unless you are a member. Ev- 

 ery progressive nurseryman ought to be- 

 long. Every man or woman who owns a 

 place to grow a tree ought to join the asso- 

 ciation. It will put them on the road to suc- 

 cess in nut growing and save them time, 

 money and serious and expensive mistakes. 

 MEMBERSHIP is $2.50 a year with the 

 monthly American Nut Journal, $2 with all 

 publications except the Journal. Back re- 

 ports are sold to members at 25 cents, to 

 non-members 50 cents. The current report 

 is SI. The Journal alone $1.25 yearly. 

 CONCLUSION. We must grow more nuts 

 because some of our chief sources of pro- 

 teid food are inevitably diminishing and 

 nuts readily replace meat in the dietary. 

 They are not only very rich in protein but 

 also in fats, and some of them in starches, 

 thus supplying an easily balanced ration. 

 They are a real food, not a dessert of deli- 

 cacy only, and the methods of combining 

 them in the dietary should be better under- 

 stood. 



We must grow more of our food on trees. 

 They may be a little slower in getting to 

 work than grain crops that are sown in the 

 spring and reaped in the fall, if the weather 

 and bugs permit, but once going trees last 

 for many years and have a large independ- 

 ence of external conditions. Nut trees are 

 the best of the crop bearing trees. 



Growing food crops on trees is not such 

 slow work as some people think. A man 

 setting nut trees was scoffingly asked by a 

 neighbor when he expected them to bear. 

 "I don't know," replied the man, "but I am 

 sure they will bear a long time before 

 those trees you are not setting." 



DR. W. C. DEMING, Secretary. 

 Georgetown, Conn. 



