. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 18 \vidc range of conditions as are the prune, loganberry or filbert. It does very well when conditions favor it, but it is a waste of money to try to make it grow where con- ditions are unfavorable. .\ large amount of money has been wasted b\- trying to grow nut groves in locations where air or water is poor or where the soil is shallow. Others lost out by planting inferior trees or inferior varieties and still others by not properly caring for their trees after they were planted. The young walnut tree re- quires a lot of babying. AIR drainage is
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 18 \vidc range of conditions as are the prune, loganberry or filbert. It does very well when conditions favor it, but it is a waste of money to try to make it grow where con- ditions are unfavorable. .\ large amount of money has been wasted b\- trying to grow nut groves in locations where air or water is poor or where the soil is shallow. Others lost out by planting inferior trees or inferior varieties and still others by not properly caring for their trees after they were planted. The young walnut tree re- quires a lot of babying. AIR drainage is of first Importance in selecting a site for a walnut grove. Ws know of one grove that has lost crops in recent years from both late spring frosts and from early fall frosts. The hill lands are general]v well drained both in respect to air and water, but it does not always follow that because a site is in the hills that such is the case. The walnut grows to be a large tree and is a heavy feeder and thrives much in pro- portion to the depth and fertility of its soil. The white, poorly drained, level lands should never be planted to nuts. The river bottoms will grow a fine tree and grow it more rapidly than will the hills, but they are more subject to frost than are the hills. Some locations along the river bottoms seem much more frost free than are others and on these nut growing may be successful. They will usually be hit by frost more often than will the hills, but they will yield larger crops and will bear commercially a little earlier when the frosts do not inter- fere. The hill lands are the safest for heavy plantings, especially where the walnut is to be a major crop. Where filberts are to be the major crop and walnuts a minor crop the river bottom soils are best. The hills generally are more free from frost, but are more difficult of cultivation, mois- BETTER FRUIT ture is more difficult to hold and often the soils are less fertile. While the walnut is not native to our No
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