The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-28
WALNUTS MAKE A
 PROFITABLE CROP
H HALE ADVOCATED NUT GULL : TURF MANY YEARS AGO.
His Suggestions Are Now Endorsed by Other Persons. s.-Points That Connecticut Farmers Know

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 Ten or q dozen years ago, when J IT. Hale was called on to make fveyminute talk at meeting or the aConnecticut PomologlcaI Society, aane adVfsed all of the fruit growers to set F out apple orchards and heIpfedieteo that Ithe Baldwin was the coming ap- sple.s Whether it was MT: Hale 8. IalsA started in. Connecticut cannot tbe de terrniYedss but the fact rem aims that beginning about that time smanysneW orchards were set out in Connecticut and trees have been set out In mum Etbers since that time. as a trip through the farming section shows. Tn tnaI same talk MT. Hale advised the set ting out of walnut trees. and he said that there is always a good market for walnUts and that walnut trees would afford a good return for the farmer.
 A trip through the country does not disclose many young walnut trees, but dozen years after MT. Hale gave this advice, Country Life in Ameri- ca,'' in a recent number, has an ar ticIeJ on walnut growing. MT. Hale thought so well of what he told the fruit growers about walnut culture that he went into the business him self. What Country Life in Amer ica" has tofsay about walnut growing is not without interest to Connecticut farmers. The article says:
 English walnuts have already been grown to a certain extent in this country, especially in California, where orchards have produced from S4OO to $1,00D an acre, and they have been tried in a few other states with great success. Many nuts be- come quite astringent or even bitter when grown in the higher attitudes.
 1t has been generally considered that central New York, from Buffalo to Albany, for instance, was too far north and so too cold for successful walnut culture. Nut experts, how ever, know this to be untrue, for ex- icellerlt nuts of this species are toa be found growing in the triangle bound ed by Buffalo, Boston and Philade1- phia s, t.. .-s
 Almost any part of the country where there is an average temperate climate and appropriate soil, is suit able for growing walnuts. and it may be said with. certainty that they will thrive wherever peaches are success fuls and require much less care. A young city man might plant half of a fifty acre farm with English wal the first cost of the 3arn, with the aS- surapce of an income from them which will give him 8 comfortable living after reaching middle life.
 The small farmer, too, may well appropriate this means of providing against the time when he cannot be actively engaged in the field, and if he begins when young to clear, fer tilize and make nut orchards of his unused acres he will after term of years have very respectable addition to his other farm profits which will come to him almost without any ef- fort on his part.
 In fact the time is not far distant when few farsighted farmers in the East and North will be earning incomes which compare very favor a bly, with those Of the pecan orchard lists of the South and the walnut and almond ranchmen of the Pacific coast AS an instance. of this Dr. Robert T. Morris, g. prominent New York sur {geon hopes that. at 65 he may re- tire from active professional life with ran annual income of $25, 900 or more from his 200 acre nut orchard near Stamford, Conn, not all of which is planted.
 F Some of the American nuts grown by direct production are starchy and .insipfd, but most of shose grown ir New York state are sweet and de- lightfu1 and thin of shell. There are several growers of these nuts, and Mi agara county; N -Y., which has for a long time been considered a notable | has come to the front as a nut coun try as well. Year by year the num- Der of groves has been increasing.
 Most of the thousands of walnut trees in this section came from seven nuts brought there thirty-five years ago In 1876 the great Centennial Exposition was held in Philadelphia and Norman Pomeroy, a Lockport farmer, whose father. Daniel Pome- roy, bought his farm from the Hol- land Land Company in 1S10, attended in the autumn. The very first morn