Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-20
Walnuts, 4 Potential Arizona Crop
 #I NURSERY FLOURISFIES NEAR HERE * Carr Canyon Man Fathers industry

to the wild walnut trees in the state of Arizona. would mean commercially From five to ten years would be sui
 ficicnt time for walnut grove to produce commercial nuts.
 Biederamn has investigated the
 growth of the walnut tree over the entire state of Arizona. He declares that practically any part of the com monweaIth will foster the trees On one occasion he investigated the pos |sibility of introducing walnut culture at the Fort Grant industrial school IT, ithe Graham mountains According to Biederman this institution could be self sustaining in matter or from five to ten years in this way alone. if the state would graft commercial nuts on the wild walnut trees now on the land of the school. The scientist also declares that the young people, held at the school. could be taught trade that will become more and more in demand as the possibilities of wal nut culture in Arizona becomes known.
 There is one handicap which needs
 to he removed before much can he done with the walnut industry in Ari- zona. according to Biederman- Most of the wild walnut trees are located on forest. reserves. While any person, under proper conditions, can lease land from the government on forest reserves. it can be taken away from | him upon the slightest provocation. There is no provision under the pres ent law for the settlement of forest reserves. Biederman appreciates
 (and so declares himself) the conser- vation of the forests and forest land. He adds, however. that the present policy, in so far as it affects the wal
 nut industry in Arizona, is a very deterrent.
 Biederman proposes that a law be passed by congress. and to this end
 has been in communication with Sen ator Albert B. Fallg who is scheduled !. to be the secretary of the interior in the Harding cabinet, which would al loN anyone ito take up land suitable for walnut culture and to secure
 title to that land when it mas been es- tablished that the grove. or the major
 part of it. was bearing the commer- cial product. Biederman has great hopes that such a law will be passed in congress and that some construc-
 tive work can be done along this line
 in the state of Arizona.
 Practically every variety of walnut known in the world has been tried in the little Biederman nursery. Wal nuts from Germany. Spain, France, [ Siberia. California and from other Countries are found there. The Ger
 man giant. which is truly a giant nut. can be raised in profusion. Another nut with which he is experimenting | IS a German variety which can be eaten immediately it is picked Ae- lcording to Biederman the ordinary
 walnut must be cured for number
 of days, after picking. to make it edible.
 As side line. Biederman is an en
 tomOlogist of no mean ability The iuachuca mountains are famous in [ scientific circles for the variety of it's insect life. In the little home of the walnut expert is to be found an excel
 lent collection of moths and butter flies He has investigated and pro- lpagated some of the rarest moth spe-
 cimens known to science
 Some day. the best adapted com
 mercial walnut, grafted on the wild tree. which grows so profuselv
 throughout Arizona will be a thing of
 reality in Arizona. Its industries will
 be increased and on land that many
 consider as worthless except for the
 raising of oak brush and sore muscles from climbing. When that time icomes. the hand. head and heart oe c.
 R. Biederman will have been the in-
 spring beginning of it all.