Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1920 — Plant Nut Trees. [ARTICLE]

Plant Nut Trees.

Suppose that we were to supplant willows and poplars along the roadside with trees which would give us bushels of product, worth many dollars per bushel when the leaves were swept up in the fall. It is no more difficult to set out 6 a black walnut than it is to set eut a willow or poplar. The first cost is no greater if we set out seedling trees, although, if particularly good kinds of grafted blade walnut are set out, the first cost is something more—yet negligible in view of the return. Investment in a nut tree differs from an investment in an industrial enterprise, for the reason that the plant of the industrial enterprise is decreasing In value f/om wear and tear the moment after it is completed. A. nut tree, on the other band, is increasing in value from the moment it is set out.