Snyder Bros. (Inc.), Center Point, Iowa 
Nut Trees 
available fill in with mellow top soil and put a mulch of strawy manure about 
the tree. 
BLACK WALNUTS are very heavy feeders and do best in deep rich alluvial 
soil. Well established trees may be given heavy applications of farmyard fer¬ 
tilizer, or other fertilizer judiciously applied. 
No other nut except the hickory carries its flavor like the black walnut 
through baking or other processing and the use of the kernels is increasing 
rapidly. Commercial crackers will buy all available nuts offered and pay 
much more for the improved kinds because their kernels have a better flavor 
and color, yield more per bushel, and a much larger percentage are in halves 
or quarters. The grafted kinds are also superior for landscape planting, being 
more thrifty and having larger, darker, glossy green foliage. 
Thomas is the best known and succeeds over a wide territory. Within the 
whole range of the Black Walnut only a few distant sections report another kind 
preferable to Thomas. The tree is hardy, very vigorous, productive, and a very 
young bearer, switches one year old often bearing the following season. The 
nuts are large, easily hulled and fairly thin-shelled. The kernels have fine 
flavor and color and easily crack out in halves and quarters, and the yield is 
ten pounds or more per bushel. Sizes, 5-6 ft.; 4-5 ft.; 3-4 ft.; 2-3 ft.; 18-24 in. 
Ohio has a thin shell, is an excellent cracker, and has splendid quality. It 
is more pointed than Thomas, and in a very few places is considered superior 
to it. Sizes, 3-4 ft.; 2-3 ft. 
Stambaugh won first in the 1926 contest of the Northern Nut Growers Asso¬ 
ciation with more than 1200 competitors. While ten years is too short a period 
to determine its real place there are enough very favorable reports that we con¬ 
sider it a strong rival of Thomas for first place. Sizes, 4-5 ft.; 3-4 ft.; 2-3 ft. 
Cresco is a medium sized nut of good quality which is expected to prove 
hardier than most varieties since it comes from near the Minnesota line. The 
trees are very thrifty and bear early. Sizes, 3-4 ft.; 2-3 ft. 
A few trees are available of Galloway, Lamb, Rohwer, Stabler and others 
at the prices below. Sizes available, on application. 
PRICES— of Grafted Walnuts 5-6 ft. 4-5 ft. 3-4 ft. 2-3 ft. 18-24 in. 
See sizes after each variety....$2.00 $1.75 $1.50 $1.25 $1.00 
CHESTNUTS are the most dependable bearers of the food producing trees. 
They bloom, very late, so escape the frost injury which occasionally destroys 
the crops of other nut and fruit trees, and they endure extreme heat and drought 
well. No grafted trees are available for the spring of 1937 but some seedlings 
are available. These are from seed of very hardy old trees in this locality 
and will make excellent stocks for grafting later. 
One year seedlings .12-15 in. 60c dozen $4.50 per 100 
Transplants . 2- 3 ft. 40c each 3.50 per 10 
3- 4 ft. 50c each 4.00 per 10 
4- 5 ft. 75c each 6.50 per 10 
HICKORIES, HICCANS, and PECANS. No nuts have a better flavor than 
the Shagbark Hickories and none carries its flavor through the process of baking 
so well. The hickories are slow to start after transplanting and should be given 
good care. Once they are well established they are very persistant as many 
early settlers found when they attempted to kill out a grove of hickories. 
Pecans grow faster than hickories and require a longer season in which 
to ripen. The trees will stand north of where the nuts can be expected to ripen. 
Really, as nut producers they have little value in central Iowa, but as shade 
and ornamental trees they are well worth planting. 
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