The flavor of these two wonderful Iflaek Walnuts is without (luestiou the very 
finest. Both are easy to crack, produce large meats when cracked, make wonderful fla¬ 
vored candies. The black walnut retains its true flavoi- after cooking and is very pop¬ 
ular with bakers, candy manufacturing companies, and in the use of ice creams. 
The easy cracking qualities of these New (drafted Black Walnuts cannot be com¬ 
pared with the old black walnuts. They produce large meats and will be profitable’ tb 
anyone wishing to plant a commercial orchard. You will not have any worry as to their 
hardiness as their home is in Pennsylvania and New Voi-k, as that is where these orig- 
inied, and were first brought into bearing. It is not hard to crack this type of nut so 
that whole halves are secured. 
Varieties to Plant 
THOMAS: Very large, thin shelled, splendid flavored, easy cracking nut. A fast 
and upright grower. Large meat obtained when cracked. Heavy bearer in 5 vears. 
STABLER: Nut medium size, but excellent ciacker, thin shelled, excellent flavor, 
d'ree is prolific bearer. Kernel comes out easily, often not divided, so the meats can be 
extracted in one piece. Bears early. 
NOTE: Refer to photograph for picture of Thoir’.as and Stabler Black Walnuts. 
PLANT UNPRODUCTIVE LAND: These Grafted Black Walnuts will thrive where 
any black walnut will grow. It will pay you to plant this unproductive land to these 
liUts. The timber will be valuable in years to come as well as the big crops of black 
walnuts that you will harvest. Wiite for pi ices on large plantings or refer to enclosed 
price list, 
I CHESTNUT i Growing On the Pacific Coast 
Present indications show encouraging possibilities for Grafted Chestnut groves on 
the Pacific slope, particularly in the Northwest. Chestnut growing in the East is no 
longer a profitable industry. Disease and w’eevil have'rcau.eed heavy losses to their groves. 
The West has never suffered from these adversities. 
Bearing groves in Oregon and California show very heavy yields at exceedingly early 
age. Yields of 2000 to 4000 pounds per acre may be expected from trees' 12 to 15 years 
of age. The fact that w^e are capable of producing fine chestnuts that are sold in car lots 
at 15 to 20 cents i^er lb. and that w'e are importing many millions of ix)unds of chestnuts 
from foreign countries, should interest the progressive horticulturist. The future for 
chestnuts' will no doubt be good. The cost of producing and harvesting this crop is nom¬ 
inal. They require no special spraying, pruning hr thinning. The nut falls free from the 
burr. . • ' ' ‘ 
Chestnuts will adapt themselves to brdirtar.v orchard soils with proper drainage. For 
large, rich, brown, glossy nuts far superior to those of our foreign competitor, w'e are 
to 8 cents per lb. Chestnuts produced in the Northwest show 
buirs, large size and heavy tonnage. 
hias dropped out entirely . on the Atlantic coast owing to blight. 
This coasst has never been affected with the .so-callecl Oriental Chestnut Bark disease. The 
following article Ls taken, from the F. S. Depti of Agriculture year book on page 482 bf 
the 1927 edition, showing a g'reat field for chesthut.s.''* 
“There are three known orchards and gro.ve, plantings of chestnut trees in Southern 
Illinois which for many years have annually giv'eiV^fiighly .satisfactory yields. Nuts from 
tl'.ese trees (fig. 16G) have readily brought fronv Ike to ilOc per-pbund in Chicago; depend¬ 
leceiving a pi-emium of 5 
beautiful color, well filled 
The chestnut industry 
ing upon the gi'ade and market conditions, less commissiitmLand shipping charges amount¬ 
ing roughly to 5 cents per pound. These nuts normally mature in time to reach the 
market well in advance of the imported product frcrrn ^iSbuthern Europe, which retails 
at about half or two-thirds these prices. Never-tlTelbisst“'even in"competition with- for¬ 
eign nuts, the late horrre grown varieties have an establi.shed reputation which enal)les 
tliem to command a rnai-gin in price of sevei-al cents a pound during the early i)ait of 
th import season.” 
Chestnuts will r-espond to the same cultivation, fertility, di-ainage and cover crop¬ 
ping, la.s a walnut grove. They should be set from 40 to 50 feet aparf, usirrg from 27 to 17 
to the acr-e, and can be interset with fillers of peaches, chei-i-ies and other commeix-ial 
fruits or berries and made to bring- you an earl.v income. Chestnuts do not blossom until 
summer time and are sure croppers. 
The field for expansion in the chestnut industry is great. Markets are good, and a 
grove of chestnuts will pi'ove to be a valualrle asset to an’y farm in the Pacific Northwe.st. 
AMERICAN AND ITALIAN SEEDLING (TIESTM TS: This type of che.stnut does 
particularly well along this coast. At pi-esent many irlanters prefer this type of tree to 
the grafted sorts. The size of the nuts and bearing habits of this ti’ee are (tuite unifoi-m 
and bring excellent i-eturns, and at good inices. They are exceptionally sti-ong growers 
and make beautiful shade trees, with large dark green leaves. The nuts are large, 
sweet and excellent quality. l.,ai-ge crojrs are often produced on ver.v yourrg orchards. 
Nuts Are a Noii-rerishable Crop 
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