. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Jtdy, 1921 BETTER FRUIT The Nut Industry of the Northwest By Knight Pearcy of Salem THE Northwest country of America can produce commercially three varieties of nuts, chestnuts, walnuts and filberts. The nut producing sections of this region are limited almost wholly to that part of the states of Oregon and Washington located west of the Cascade range. While there are few or no commercial orchards of chestnuts of any considerable size, still there are groups of trees scattered pretty well over this whole region whose performance is such as to warrant the be- lief
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Jtdy, 1921 BETTER FRUIT The Nut Industry of the Northwest By Knight Pearcy of Salem THE Northwest country of America can produce commercially three varieties of nuts, chestnuts, walnuts and filberts. The nut producing sections of this region are limited almost wholly to that part of the states of Oregon and Washington located west of the Cascade range. While there are few or no commercial orchards of chestnuts of any considerable size, still there are groups of trees scattered pretty well over this whole region whose performance is such as to warrant the be- lief that chestnuts can be grown here com- mercially in case the market demands are such as to make such groves desirable. Near Salem is a planting of trees some t^venty years of age. In spite of the fact that these trees are planted much too close together and that they have been given poor care they average fifty pounds of nuts per tree annually. Some of the trees have produced 100 pounds and one yielded 150 pounds one season. Other small plantings in the Willamette valley have done well. We can be assured of an average yield of at least 1200 pounds per acre. Chestnuts have brought twenty-five to forty cents per pound to the grower on the Chicago market in past years. The great native chestnut regions of the East which have heretofore furnished the needs of the American trade are fast van- ishing as a result of a terrible disease which has been killing off thousands of acres of trees annually for the last twenty years. Plant pathologists say that there is no hope of saving these plantings and that it is im- possible to grow commercial plantings in the area of the native chestnut since the dis- ease spreads to the cultivated varieties, with these nuts they must be either supplied Hence if our markets are to be supplied from foreign sources or else from a limited section of the middle west in which the nut is not native, or from our Pacific North- west. There is no questio
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