Part 4

Orchards seven and eight years old bring all the way from $1,000 to $2,000 per acre and are a fine investment, yielding from 15 to 125 per cent. according to age.

The total cost of producing and harvesting an English Walnut crop is about one and one-half cents a pound.

Kernels of Fact about the English Walnut.

The United States consumes more than 50,000,000 pounds a year.

The United States imports about 27,000,000 pounds a year.

The price is advancing steadily with the demand.

Besides being profitable, the English Walnut is a clean, highly ornamental shade tree.

The leaves remain on the tree until late in the Fall, not littering up the ground during the Summer.

English Walnuts are not only a rare table delicacy, but may be utilized for catsup, pickles and oil.

One pound of walnut meat equals eight pounds of steak in nutriment--and is a far more healthful food.

What Luther Burbank has to say:

"When you plant another tree, why not plant the English Walnut? Then, besides sentiment, shade and leaves, you may have a perennial supply of nuts, the improved kind of which furnish the most delicious, nutritious and healthful food which has ever been known. The consumption of nuts is probably increasing among all civilized nations today faster than that of any other food; and we should keep up with this growing demand and make it still more rapid by producing nuts of uniform good quality, with a consequent increase in the health and a permanent increase in the wealth of ourselves and neighbors."--From Address at Santa Rosa, California, in the Fall of 1905.

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