Walnut Yield Per Acre

While it is generally found that seedling trees properly treated come

into bearing the eighth year, this crop is usually light, doubling each

successive season for seven or eight years. From then on there is a

steady increase in crop and hardiness for many years. Often trees in

Oregon bear in their sixth year; while there are instances on record of

trees set out in February bearing the following autumn. This is no

criterion, however, merely an instance illustrating the unusual richness

of Oregon soil, and its perfect adaptability to walnut culture.



Thirty-five acres on the Prince place yielded at twelve years, twelve

tons of fine nuts, which were sold at 18 and 20 cents a pound, two cents

above the market price, making an average of $125 per acre. Another

grove of two acres yielded in their ninth year two tons, or a ton to the

acre, netting the owner $360 an acre.



Mr. A. A. Quarnberg's eleven-year-old trees averaged twenty-five pounds

each. Mr. Henry J. Biddle's ten and twelve-year-old trees averaged

thirty pounds each. One hundred fifty dollars an acre from

twelve-year-old trees is a conservative estimate, though some groves not

cultivated may fall under that figure, while others in a high state of

cultivation will almost double it.