. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. January, 1928 BETTER FRUIT Page Twenty-three Harvesting Profits From Walnuts (Continued from fage 6) of course, one has suitable land, properly located: "Planting a walnut grove is like taking out life insurance with this difference— if you have a twenty year policy you pay \ certain amount each year for twenty years; If you plant a walnut grove you pay a cer- tain amount in cultivation, work and capi- tal invested, for 10 or 11 years. Aftei this your trees will pay your yearly dues. In 20 years you will have a piece of prop- erty worth from $1000 to $1500 a
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. January, 1928 BETTER FRUIT Page Twenty-three Harvesting Profits From Walnuts (Continued from fage 6) of course, one has suitable land, properly located: "Planting a walnut grove is like taking out life insurance with this difference— if you have a twenty year policy you pay \ certain amount each year for twenty years; If you plant a walnut grove you pay a cer- tain amount in cultivation, work and capi- tal invested, for 10 or 11 years. Aftei this your trees will pay your yearly dues. In 20 years you will have a piece of prop- erty worth from $1000 to $1500 an acre. "There is no surer investment, provided the trees have the best care. I know 10 or 12 years is a long wait, and this is one of the reasons this line of horticulture is not further advanced in this state; but, if we consider the long life of the tree, it is a short time after all. If only the people of this state would realize the opportunities of making money by the growing of wal- nuts, our hillsides would be one continuous walnut grove. The time is surely coming when the growing of walnuts will be one of the greatest assets the state ; Such is the opinion of Mr. Trunk, after spending 15 years in the game. Readers will doubtless be interested in knowing something of the history of his operations and his observations, as to cultural methods. For one thing, he urges good cultivation. It is imperative, he says, that the trees be not neglected the first seven or eight years. Location of the grove is another impor- tant point. Some groves about Dundee, planted at too low an elevation, were ruined in the severe winter of 1919. The record of Mr. Trunk's experience with walnut plantings may well be given in his own language, as reported to the 1920 annual session of the Oregon State Horti- cultural Society: "At my home place, on the road between Dundee and Dayton, about 70 acres is a- dapted to the growing of walnuts. The remainder of the land lies from 25
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