Filbert Culture is a Profitable Enterprise on this Coast 
The following' facts and suggestions are earnestly offered to Prospective Planters 
of Filbert Trees, and as a successful guide to producing a profitable Grove. 
Ideal soil and climatic conditions found in certain parts of Oregon, Washington, 
California and British Columbia have proven to be exceedingly well adapted to the cul¬ 
ture of Filberts. Many groves in these areas planted in the last ten to thirty years have 
proven very profitable as commercial investments for their owners. Regular bearing hab¬ 
its and heavy yields make them favorable to plant. They enjoy an amazingly strong 
market position, placing them at the top as a farm crop. Young groves at 5 years old 
produce a paying crop. Reported yields of 25 to 30 lbs. on 8 year trees, 30 to 40 lbs. on 
10 year trees, 60 lbs. on 15 year, and as much as 100 lbs. and more on 25 year old trees, 
would positively indicate that they are paying piofits far in excess of ordinary farm crops. 
The filbert industry is young and future possibilities are immense. Thisi growing 
horticultural enterprise is past the stage of experimentation. Definite methods of plant¬ 
ing, pruning, cultivation, harvesting and marketing, have been successfully developed. 
Consumption of filberts in the U. S. in the past few years, has made rapid strides and 
today is consuming more than 30 million pounds annually and which amount is mostly 
imported, showing a great field for expansion of the filbert industry on this coast. The 
metropolitan centers of the East and Middle West have tasted our Western grown nuts 
in the last few years and brokers from those sections flood our nut marketing organiza¬ 
tions with early orders to insure securing a highly flavored filbert for their trade. The 
quality of the Western grown filbert is far superior to the foreign filbert imported chief¬ 
ly from Sicily, England, France and Italy. European competitors are compelled to pay 
5c to 10c per lb. tariff. Their new crop does not reach us in time to catch our Holiday 
Season and is often stale and rancid on arrival. Rapid growing co-operative nut selling 
organizations in Oregon and Washington are ready to take care of your crop. 
Filberts are used by large manufacturing industries in cakes, cookies, candies, 
bread and ice cream, as well as sold daily, as a healthful food to an ever increasing ap¬ 
petite of the nut consuming American. They are a healthy nut, rich in flavor, easy to 
crack, clean, readily digested and high in food value. 
Adaptability 
Every farmer, orchardist, berrygrower, poultiyman and small home owner in the 
Northwest should have some filberts planted at least for his own use. The poultry man 
will find the filbert a very convenient and non-peiishable crop to have growing in his 
poultry yard. The farmer having land suited to their culture can well set aside a small 
acreage for their growing. They will prove to be his best investment. Coming into pro¬ 
duction at an early age and requiring only limited capital to bring on to a point where 
they are productive and paying good dividends at four and five years and doubling that 
production rapidly, they can well be considered a good investment for the thrifty laborer, 
owning land, who is seeking a safe investment to take care of his needs in later years. 
Bankers, professional men and merchants find them a safe investment. Berry growers 
often use the filbert as a follow-up crop when pioduction slows down with their berry 
plants. Planting them at the same time as the berries, they find them in good production 
when the berries run out. This works as a double investment for the grower. 
Hardiness 
Filberts adapt themselves to weather conditions far better than any other farm 
crop. Untimely rains do not affect their winter and early spring blooming habits, as often 
occurs with many fruits. Fall rains do not injure this hardy nut at harvest time. Crop 
failures are unknown where properly pollenized. In Oiegon and Washington filbert trees 
have withstood temperature of 15 to 20 degrees below zero and produced crops the fol¬ 
lowing spring. To date we do not have any serious pests to cause excessive spraying. 
Filbert trees in England are still bearing at 150 years old. 
Soils 
The filbert will, no doubt, adapt itself to a far greater variety of soils than most 
trees grown for commercial production. They, however, respond to good soil and extra 
cover cropping with vetch, rye and good barnyard fertilizer, or commercial fertilizer. The 
ordinary heavy valley loams, rolling shot or loam soils, and sandy river bottoms found in 
Western British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and parts of California will produce abun¬ 
dant crops. Many fine groves are found adjacent to the Canadian border at Lynden and 
Everson, Washington. Also at Everett, Bellingham, Sedro Wooley, Seattle, Tacoma, C'heha- 
lis and throughout Clark County, Washington, are found many fine productive groves and 
trees. Throughout the Willamette Valley in Oregon are found many commercial groves 
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