Planting Guide and Successful Culture of 
FILBERTS 
MAKE YOUR PRESENT LAND WORTH $1000 TO $2000 PER ACRE 
The following facts and suggestions are earnestly offered to prospective planters of Filbert Trees, 
and as a successful guide to producing a profitable grove. 
Ideal soil and climatic conditions found in certain parts of Oregon, Washington. California and 
British Columbia have proven to be exceedingly well adapted to the culture of Filherts. Many 
groves in these areas planted in the last ten to thirty years have proven very profitable as com- 
mercial investments for their owners. Regular bearing habits and heavy yields make them favorable 
to plant. They enjoy an amazingly strong market 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 Ibs. 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 horticultural 
enterprise is past the stage of experimentation. Definite methods of planting, pruning, cultivation, 
harvesting and marketing, have been successfully developed. Consumption of filberts in the United 
States 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 
organizations 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 from 
Sicily, England, France and Italy. European competitors are compelled to pay 5 cents to 10 cents 
per pound 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 organizations 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 smail 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 production at an early age and requiring only limited capital to 
bring on to a point where they are productive 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 farm 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 temperatures of 15 to 20 degrees 
below zero and produced crops the following 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 production. They, however, respond to good soil and extra cover cropping with vetch, 
rye and good barnyard fertilizer, or commercial fertilizer. The ordinary 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 abundant crops. Many fine groves are found adjacent to the 
Canadian border at Lynden and Everson, Washington. Also at Everett, Bellingham, Sedro Woolley, 
Seattle, Tacoma, Chehalis and throughout Clark County, Washington, are found many fine produc- 
tive groves and trees. Throughout the Willamette Valley in Oregon are found many commercial 
groves which are very profitable. California plantings up to San Francisco and in the mountainous 
sections near Nevada City, but filberts will thrive in many sections of California 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. 


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