niarket position, placing them at the top as a farm crop. Young groves at five 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 profits far in excess of ordinary farm crops. 
The filbert industry is young and future possibilities are immense. This growing 
lun'ticultural 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 IT. 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 chiefly 
ftom 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 organ¬ 
izations 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 appetite 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, berry grower, poultryman and small home owner in the 
Northwest should have some filberts planted at least for his own use. The poultryman 
will find the filbert a very convenient and non-perishable 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 pi’oductive 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 production 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 fai'iU 
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 Oregon 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 greater variety of soils than most trees 
grown for commercial pioduction. They, however, respond to good soil and extra cover 
cropping with vetch, rye and good barnyard fertilizer, or icommercial fertilizer. The or¬ 
dinary 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, Che- 
halis and throughout Clark County, Washington, are found many fine productive groves 
and trees. Throughout the Willamette Valley in Oregon are found many commercial 
groves which are very profitable. In the Rogue River Valley of Oregon is found several 
very fine orchards grown both under irrigation and without. California plantings up to 
cisco and in the mountainous section near Nevada City, but filberts will thrive in many 
sections of Califo.rnia and bear heavy, profitable crops. 
Filberts respond to cultivation and thrive best where water tables are low and should 
not be planted on sour, heavy soil. 
Certified Yields 
A. G . Holman of Albany, Oregon, reports a yield of over 2 lbs. average on a block 
of 1200 Barcelona trees 4 years old (accurate weight totalled 2717 lbs.). The same block 
jiveraged 5 lbs. their 5th year. R. W. Grant of Vancouver, Wash., reports a yield of 
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