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Walnut Growing in Oregon, Edited by J. C. Cooper

Walnut Growing in Oregon, Edited by J. C. Cooper

by Jacob Calvin Cooper

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Editor
Cooper, Jacob Calvin, 1845-1937
Title
Walnut Growing in Oregon
Credits
Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University)
Language
English
LoC Class
SB: Agriculture: Plant culture
Subject
Walnut
Category
Text
eBook-No.
20202
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20202
Release Date
December 28, 2006
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.WALNUT GROWING IN OREGON
  2. 2.Edited by J. C. Cooper — PUBLISHED BY THE
  3. 3.CONTENTS — WALNUT GROWING IN OREGON
  4. 4.A COMING INDUSTRY OF GREAT NATIONAL IMPORTANCE — Garden stuff, Melons, Pumpkins, Prunes and Children growing among the Walnuts. The Walnuts will in a Few Years put out all but the children.
  5. 5.HISTORY IN BRIEF
  6. 6.TEST TREES OF OREGON — Here is a Santa Barbara soft-shell on the lawn of Mr. E. C. Apperson, in McMinnville, which at the age of eight years bore 32 pounds of walnuts. It stood the frosts and winter of 1908-'09 and bears every year; it is now 11 years old, 12 inches in diameter and has a branch spread of 40 feet. — The "Cozine" Walnut Tree
  7. 7.WOOD OF THE ENGLISH WALNUT
  8. 8.YOUNG GROVES OF OREGON
  9. 9.LOCATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL GROVES
  10. 10.PLANTING
  11. 11.WHAT TO PLANT
  12. 12.SEEDLING WALNUTS
  13. 13.GRAFTED TREES
  14. 14.WALNUT GRAFTING
  15. 15.GRAFTING WAX
  16. 16.BEST STOCK ON WHICH TO GRAFT
  17. 17.GOOD PLAN FOR WALNUT ORCHARD
  18. 18.THE TAP ROOT — Tap Root of a Two-year-old Black Walnut showing how the root grows down to permanent water level, thus insuring full crops regardless of weather conditions
  19. 19.WALNUT CULTIVATION
  20. 20.PRUNING WALNUTS
  21. 21.TRAINING THE TREES
  22. 22.NO DISEASES INJURE OREGON WALNUTS — Old Walnut Trees Planted About 1850 Near McMinnville, on the Yamhill River
  23. 23.POLLINATION
  24. 24.THE HARVEST
  25. 25.WASHING AND DRYING
  26. 26.SORTING AND GRADING
  27. 27.PACKING AND SHIPPING
  28. 28.WALNUT YIELD PER ACRE
  29. 29.THE WALNUT MARKET
  30. 30.COMPARED WITH FRUIT
  31. 31.THE POUND PACKAGE
  32. 32.WALNUT CONFECTIONERY
  33. 33.WALNUTS IN COOKING — NUT BREAD — GEMS — NUT CAKE — CHOCOLATE NUT CAKE — NUT COOKIES — APPLE NUT SALAD — DRESSING FOR SAME
  34. 34.BY-PRODUCTS — No. 1, 1 Vrooman Franquette. No. 2, 2 Mayette. No. 3, 3 Mayette Rouge. No. 4, 4 Parisienne. No. 5, 5 Praeparturien. No. 6, 6 Chaberte. No. 7. Cluster. Plate One — No. 1, 1 Franquette. No. 2, 2 Glady. No. 3, 3 Payne. No. 4, 4 Mayette. No. 5, 5 Meylan. No. 6, 6 Parisienne. No. 7, Cluster. No. 8, Praeparturien. Plate Two
  35. 35.VARIETIES
  36. 36.WEIGHTS, KERNEL AND TASTE
  37. 37.WHO SHOULD INVEST
  38. 38.CONCLUSION
  39. 39.OREGON WALNUT AREA BY COUNTIES — Note: The price of land varies according to location; the cheaper land is not all cleared.
  40. 40.GOLD MEDAL WALNUT EXHIBIT (See cut on following page) — Railroad Representatives — Who will take pleasure in giving all desired information as to rates, routes, train schedules, hotel accommodations, etc., and make advance arrangements for trips. — THE OREGON RAILROAD & NAVIGATION CO. Oregon & Washington R.R. Union Pacific Oregon Short Line Southern Pacific Co.

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