HARDY GRAFTED 
NUT TREES 
MOVED AND TRANSPLANTED THE 
“HERSHEY WAY” 
A Nut Grove for Wealth and Happiness 
As time goes on our trees are making better and better 
showing all over the country. The ornamental trees, 
pecan, hickory and hican, are bearing at 5 to 7 years of 
age, making the home owner enthusiastic over using 
these rapid growing, early bearing, beautiful foliaged 
trees for ornamental plantings. See front page. 
It is not he that hopes to plant, nor he that wishes he 
had planted, that receives the reward, but he that 
plants. "Therefore” plant "that ye may obtain.” 
The trend of thought in nut culture for the past 25 
years has centered almost entirely around the profit of 
nuts, but with the stark tragedy of losing our surface 
soils staring us in the face, we have just recently recog¬ 
nized the future value of the investment of walnut trees 
as plowless food producers. Authentic reports of the 
profit of walnut growing are seemingly unbelievable. In 
1936, a County Agent of western North Carolina reported 
that one of his farmers had sold a tree, “stock and 
stump” for $450. 
One pioneer in Iowa had such faith in the value of the 
black walnut that he planted eighty acres of good corn 
ground to this timber, setting them 40x40 feet. 
As time went on he was able to sell two and three car¬ 
loads of walnuts per year on the Chicago market. During 
the World War he sold his eighty acres of timber on 
tbe stump, sixty years after planting, for $250,000. 
An orchard man in Arkansas left the natural walnut 
saplings stand when he cleared for an apple orchard 25 
years ago. Now he receives a profit from the walnuts 
while the apples sell at a loss. 
A farmer in east Tennessee 55 years ago let 250 walnut 
saplings stand on a hill while clearing for pasture. Today 
he not only harvests more beef from this pasture than 
from a treeless pasture next to it, but lie’s growing fine 
trees and cattle instead of erosion gullies and poverty as 
his neighbors do. 
The Middle Tennessee Experiment Station has in¬ 
creased beef per acre 15% in a 4 year test with walnut 
pasture shade. 
It is with more and greater appreciation that each 
year I see the tree crop idea taking hold of public thought 
While I was absent a good bit of the time over the last 
5 years starting a tree crop program for the federal gov¬ 
ernment in the South, a lot of stock has grown into beau¬ 
tiful specimens. People who received such stock last year 
were surely pleased. Many people think the pecan belongs 
in the South and isn’t hardy here. However, northern 
strains of exquisite beauty have been bearing in several 
parts of Penna. for 50 years. You, too, can have like 
beauty on your lawn—with nuts. Note special specimen 
list of hybrid hickory, hicans, hybrid hazels, and im¬ 
proved black walnuts. . . 
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