. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 20 eases to combat. The nut is not easily per- ishable and bears at an early age, producing large crops of high-priced products. Over- production is improbable, the American public consuming now 20,000,000 annually of foreign grown nuts. In fact, this is an ideal "lazy man's" crop, easily grown and returning good dividends. The filbert will never be grown in any other part of the United States because of limitations of climate and of disease. The one thing that prevents rapid increase in planting in this section is the limited sup- ply of nursery s
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 20 eases to combat. The nut is not easily per- ishable and bears at an early age, producing large crops of high-priced products. Over- production is improbable, the American public consuming now 20,000,000 annually of foreign grown nuts. In fact, this is an ideal "lazy man's" crop, easily grown and returning good dividends. The filbert will never be grown in any other part of the United States because of limitations of climate and of disease. The one thing that prevents rapid increase in planting in this section is the limited sup- ply of nursery stock. The filbert cannot be propagated rapidly like other trees and it will be years to come before enough trees will be available to fill the demands for stock. Under ideal conditions the filbert will begin to produce commercially the fifth Box Shocks East Side Box Co. Manufacturers SPRUCE AND HEMLOCK Box Shooks Foot of Spokane Avenue Portland, Oregon BETTER FRUIT year and will increase rapidly in yield there- after. The Moission orchard near Salem pro- duced a ton per acre the tenth year and it was not in the best condition possible. The Kruse orchard at Wilsonville, one of the finest in the state, produced thirty pounds per tree the tenth or eleventh year. This is at the rate of 3000 pounds per acre. The owner received thirty cents per pound that year which netted him a very fine revenue. However, we cannot expect that price now that prices are returning to normal, although we can expect eighteen to twenty-five cents to the grower. There is a thirty-two-year-old tree in East Portland which produced 150 pounds one year. This is at the rate of over seven tons per acre. George Dorris, the veteran filbert grower of Springfield, states that an acre of number one Barcelona trees, given everything favorable, should produce 500 to 1000 pounds the fifth year; 2000 to 3000 pounds the eighth year; 3000 to 4000 the tenth year and 4000 to 5000 pounds the twelfth year. Dorris is per- haps
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