, or the inexperienced man who desires to escape the
tyranny of city work by way of the soil will find that a walnut grove
offers an immediate home, a living from small fruits and vegetables
while his trees are maturing, and at the end of eight or ten years, the
beginning of an income that will every year thereafter increase, while
the labor exacted will gradually lessen until it amounts to practically
nothing. Like rearing children, a walnut grower's troubles are over with
the trees' infant days.

The capitalist can find no better place for his money than safely
invested in Oregon walnut lands; the rise is certain and near.

[Illustration: _The "Meat" of the Walnut_]

Some years ago "Outlook," a most conservative publication, spoke of the
English walnut as "a tree of vast commercial importance in the far
west."

Luther Burbank states: "The consumption of walnuts is increasing among
all civilized nations faster than any other food."

CONCLUSION

B. M. Lelong, Secretary of the California State Board of Horticulture,
wrote in 1896:

"California growers have had a long and varied experience with many
failures, and when they finally began to place their walnuts on the
market they were obliged to accept the humiliating price of from 3 to 6
cents a pound less than that paid for imported walnuts."

In Oregon the reverse is true. Our walnuts command a price above that
paid for walnuts raised anywhere else. The size, cracking-out quantity,
delicate flavor and delicious creamy taste, are the qualities that give
the Oregon walnut its surpassing excellence. If we have this
pre-eminence at the beginning of the industry, what may we expect when
intelligent cultivation has produced the best grade of walnuts of which
our soil and climate are capable?

To Oregon, then, with its vast areas adapted to this industry, must the
world look for its great annual walnut harvest in the years to come. The
far-seeing man will secure an interest in Oregon walnut lands now,
before speculation and a general awakening to their real value have
boosted the price to that of walnut lands elsewhere.

[Illustration: _View in Prince Walnut Grove Dundee, Oregon_]

OREGON WALNUT AREA BY COUNTIES

Note: The price of land varies according to location; the cheaper land
is not all cleared.

Groves now Bearing trees. Available land. Price
County. planted. per acre.