Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-20

n within sJ miles oL Bisbee?
 CT course, your mind will immed- iately jump 10 the ridiculous and seek out number of places you might classiiv under the foregoing title. hut We speak in all seriousness It is nut farm: one of the few of it's kind in the entire world and dedl- cated to the propagation Of wainuts' erafted upon the myriad of wild trees of that variety that abound through out the state of Arizona.
 High up in Carr Canyon. in the Huachucas. 90 miles from Bisbee. and reached bt an excellent highway IS the nursery from which Arizona. m years to come. may get it's inspiration for big industry-the raising of wal nuts. Who hassnot seen the national advertising carried on bv the walnut growers of California? What man has not turned over the pages of his wife pet woman'si magazine, allowing his eyes to feast upon the artistically ar ranged dishes of every edible and IT. nally ranged to page or more de- voted to the excellence Of the walnut as an article of food2
 Yet m Arizona there are seven mil lion wild walnut trees. all suscepuble of being converted into bearing trees: into commercial trees that1 will vie Q with California for the trade of the United States. This Is the life work of c. eR. Bsederman, the man who owns the nursery and who has devot- ed nearly twenty years of long life to arid climate walnut grating and culture.
 In speaking of wild walnuts and the grating system perfected by c. R. - Biederman, the results of years of study sometime lose interest in com parison With the man who has wrought the change. With all of fou' score and ten years upon his should ,iers: a whitened beard that speaks of many Huadhuca winters; living alone with horse and a cat as his only liyang pets; this man breathes. lives and dreams of walnuts. Follow ing the march of Sherman's victorious army 10 the sea. young man struck west. It was C. R. Biederman- That was in 1865 and it was in that year he passed through Arizona on his way to the west coast of America Al most immediately following his dis charge from the Union army Biede~ man became interested in the study of trees and insects.
 In the year 1903. after wandering over large part of the United States during which time he noted the ruth less slaughter of the wild walnut trees in various states. he located in his present home in the Huachucas. He has lived in Carr Canyon since that time. He has clear title to 95 acres of land and outside of a very small garden. devotes the balance of the acreage to the study and propaga- tioR of the best walnut
 Scientists always considered the 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 would live This made the grating of wal nuts very expensive and uncertain matter Biedermm undertook the so- lution of this problem. The old meth cd of grating would not do. The re- suits were hard to get and expensive when they were secured lie secured the works of every scientist who had investigated the grating of all kinds of trees. H. secured little knowledge from them. however. until he found one writer who discussed the rela- ton of tree cells After a matter of five years. during which time he i'm vestigated and eXperimented. he evolved what is now known as the Biederman system of grating The results are remarkable i'm many ways
 By the Biederman method ninety five per cent of the gratis live and bear nuts. With a full grown tree or with two or three wear old tree tho Biederman grafts bear nuts in two years. In California the seedIiae orchards bear in from five to ten years and il is twenty years before a walnut tree is considered mature. II ran be seen from these bare figures what the system, if applied generally