Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-08
annual MEETING
OF WALNUT men
HELD NEXT week

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The Western Walnut association will
hold its annual meeting at the Multi
nomah hotel, Portland. November Il
and Is.
There is a very large acreage of wal
nuts and filberts in the state at thls
time, and nut culture is bound to be-
come one of the strong horticultural
lines of this state The present interest
in filberts alone will indicate an acre
age of from 5000 to 10000 acres in
the relative near future. Filbert grow
ing as we'll as walnut growing, is prov
ing to be profitable, and an attrac-
tive investment.
The officers of the Western Walnut
association are: J. C. Cooper of Nc
Minnville, president: c. I. Lewis OF
Salem, vice-president and knight
Pearcy, Salem, secretary-treasurer
A very strong program has been pre-
pared for the meeting. c. A. Reed ch1ef
of the division of nut culture, U. s. de-
partment of agriculture, is to come
across the continent to meet the nut
growers of Oregon.
The program is as follows:
Wednesday, Morning session 10 a. M
Annual message of president, ). =
Cooper, McMinnville.
Report of the secretary
Knight Pearcy, Salem.
Planting the nuts in the orchard,
Chas. Trunk, Dundee.
Nursery grating Filberts, j. G. Her
rem, Salem.
walnut growing experiences, J. r.
teNeui, Oregon City.
Afternoon Session.
Statistics of nut culture, Earl Pear
cy, Salem.
The California Walnut Growers as
sociation, J. F. Langner, associate eol-
tor Oregon Journal.
American nut culture literature
Ralph II. Olcott, editor American Nut
Culture.
Nuts in confectionery use Frank "
Brown, Dallas.
F,,bert growing, John Norelius, VAN
couver, Washington.
The Oregon Growers Cooperative
association. and the Oregon nut grow
er. Robert c. Paulus, Salem.
Evening Session.
Renorts on Yields, Trunk, Croner,
Daarhorn. walgamot, Withycombe.
Root, Shaw, Sturgeon, Norelios' kruse
Lewis. Page Nibler and others.
Filbert growing in the Northwest
Geo. Doris, Springfield.
Nut growing in the U. S. C. "A. Reeo'
Thursday.
Morning Session $3.50 a. III.
Pruning the Filbert, H. A. Kruse'
Sherwood
Growing Walnuts on stump Lahos'
". f. Britt. Newberg.
A tree agriculturist for our logged
off lands. Knight Pearcy, Salem
Now varieties, Kruse, wilkins, Brix-
ey, Groner. - rr,,s-
Drying walnuts, Fred Groner HIS
boro
Question box.
Afternoon Session.
T,creasjne the consumpti"" "'
,on nu+s Geo. Hall, Hall & Emory ad-
yertisine agency,
Maintaining the Vigor in nut trees
Prof. C. I. Lewis, organization lh'ha-
90, Oregon Growers Cooperative as
sociation.
Notes on Filbert Varieties, r. GRAY
es, Salem.
Promising Seedlings, j. c. cooper
MeMinnville.
Election of officers
The meeting of the association gives
an unusual opportunity for those III.
+erested in nut culture to attend aho
gain helpful information. Nearly ai
the sneakers are men who own iarss
mt nroperties, who are making a sue
cess of their venture, and who are VII.
ling and glad to give information ans \.
help to the beginner. Salem has one . u
the largest acreages of walnuts ah' an.
filberts in the state. A survey yeal
ago showed in territory adjacent t'
salem. over 1000 acres OF waihu''
alone. The famous Skyline orcharos .
200 acres Is typical Of one OIL the pe'
ter walnut orchards In the state.