FOREWORD 
WING to printing and engraving costs still being high, 1 
am not using much new material in this edition of my 
catalogue. 
Despite the general business depression however I 
sold nearly as many trees fall 1921 as I did fall 1920, our 
banner year, and indications now are that with few exceptions all 
trees will be sold, this spring. The supply of trees of the Heart Nut, 
English Walnut and, Shagbark is short and will not supply the de¬ 
mand. The propagation of most species of the nut trees by budding 
or grafting can not well be increased or put on a commercial scale 
as can the growing of most other trees, and notwithstanding the in¬ 
creasing demand for these trees, I can net profitably increase my 
out-put because the propagation of these trees requires extra skill 
which comes only from being vitally interested in the ivork. I am 
therefore obliged to limit my plantings instead of increasing them 
and to give my personal attention to the details of the propagating 
end of the ivork as ivell as the business management. My out-put 
this year which has taken from three to six years to produce (de¬ 
pending upon the species and sizes of trees) has cost more to pro¬ 
duce than has that of any previous year, but I am not increasing 
the price of the trees. 
With feio exceptions, those who have been engaged in the 
propagation of these trees have not been able to “Make a go of it” 
and have quit. Notwithstanding the demand for these trees is in¬ 
creasing, the supply is diminishing, and what is worse, this condi¬ 
tion seems likely to continue. The vital need of the Nut Industry 
is a supply of dependable trees of approved varieties, and with the 
rapidly increasing interest in nut culture the lack of an adequate 
supply of these trees is going to be keenly felt. What we need is a 
number of younger men of ability to take up the ivork of propa¬ 
gating these trees. 
I wish to thank my friends for past favors and solicit your 
future orders with the assurance that they will receive the same 
careful attention that they have in the past. 
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W. O'. Jonej 
Annual Plants or Tree Crops, Which? 
Scientists have been warning us for years that our present system of farm¬ 
ing with annual plants was slowly but surely exhausting our soils and that we 
would find, when it was too late, that we had “killed the Goose that laid the 
golden egg.” 
Besides the work and expense of growing annual food crops, the system of 
clean cultivation necessary for their success causes excessive leaching of fer¬ 
tility and erosion of the soils, with the result that land utilized for the growing 
of annual farm crops eventually looses its humus and fertility and refuses to 
bring forth bountiful harvests. 
