Tombstone epitaph., 1921-03-06
WAlMUTS ARE
 A POTENTIAL
 ARIZONA CROP

Did you 6no~ there i> 8 nut farr. within % miles ol Eishee,
 or course, your mind will imm~Gi atoly jump to the ridiculous and seek out anumber of places you might clas- siiy unde~ the foregoing ute. hut we speak in all seriousness it k a mt farm; one oi the few of its kind in the entire world and dedicated to the pro pasatioi4 Of walnuts. grafted upon tn, myriad of wild trees of that variety that ab"and throughout th- state o, Arizona
 High up in Carr Canyon. IL tn Iluachucas. 3o miles rom Risbee and reached D, an excellent hichway is the nursery from which Arizona. ;, Wears to come. may get it's inspiretfoI for bic industry the raising al Wal nuts Who has not s-cr t.a na..or7i advertising carried on hy the walrut growers ot California: What man nas not turned over tine pages ot his Wif-'s vet wor4an's magazine. ailowir- r..' eyes 10 feast npon the al ;;sticali, ar ranged dishes oi every edible and IT, nally ranged to a page or more l-- voted 10 the eHcelleuce oI the wairat as an >lticir 0! lood2
 Yet iu Arizona there arr, seven mi lion wi!d walnut trees. all susceptible of being converted into bearing ir,rs. into commercial trees that VIII ,i. with California Tor th" trade of the nited States This is tAe life work of C. E hiederman. the man who owns the nursery and who has lcyot- ed nearly twenty years of long life to arid climate walnut sraitiue and culture
 tn speaking of wild walnuts and the grattinc system perfected hy C. 2. BierdernaH. the results of years of study sometime lose interest in com parisou with the man who has brought the change With al! oI four score anu t~n years upon his should CTS: shiten-d beard that speaks of many Huachuca winters iiy'n: alone with a hors" and eat as his only living pets this man br-athes lives and dreams of ~alnuts Follow ing the march of Shermans victorious army to the sea young man struck west. |, was (. R Bierderman Tint was in is65 and t Was la that year he passed through Arizona on his way to the west coast cf ..mer:ca Al most immediately following his dis charge from the Union army Bierde-- man brcame interested in the study of trees and insects.
 In the year 1903. after wandering over large part Of the United States during which tire he noted the ruth ess slaughter of the wild walnut trees in various states. ;Ie located IF his present home in the Huachucas. He has lived in Carr Canyon since that time He has clear title tu O. acres o5 ia4d ani outside 0! very small garden. deyotes the balance Uf the acreage to the study and propasi- ton of the best walnut
 Scientists always considered tho walnut the most difficult tree to graft of any in existence Not more than from ten to twenty per cent of the gratis on wild walnut trees woull live. This made the grating oi wal nuts d very expensive and uncertain matter. Bierderman undertook the s9- luton or tH Hl% liTObisin. Ar b!G HitLn- od of grating would not do. The re suits were hard to get and expensive when they were secured. He secured the works Of every scientist who had investigated the grating of all kinds of trees He secured little knowledge from them. however, until he found one writer wiio discussed the rela- tion of tree cells. After a matter of five years. during which time he in yestigated and experimented. he evolved what is nov known. as the Bierdermen system Of grating. The results are remarkable in many ways.
 By the Bierderman method ninety five Der cent of the gratis live and hear nuts. With a full grown tree or with a two or three years old tree the Bierderman gratis bear nuts in two years. In California the seeding