Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1901 — Truffle Culture a New Industry. [ARTICLE]

Truffle Culture a New Industry.

The pioneer of the new industry of truffle culture was a peasant who, having observed the peculiar attraction of oaks for truffles, had the happy idea of sowing acorns from these oaks In soil of a similar character to that in which the tubers had been found. The result was that seven or eight years later truffles appeared near the young oaks. Although that convincing experiment was made nearly a century ago, it is only in recent years that the French have seriously turned their attention to truffle culture. By its means, land that was previously worthless, on account of Its stoniness and aridity, had been made profitable.