Cut back early the same as for grafting, cover all cuts with grafting wax, let all sprouts grow until time to bud, which is usually August 1 to September 1. Thin out the small, weaker sprouts and bud three or four of the largest ones, setting the bud four to six inches from where the sprout comes out of the stub. Use the patch bud, wrap carefully with waxed cloth, using muslin dipped in melted beeswax, the strips of cloth three-sixteenths to one-fourth inch wide. The following spring, about March 1, cut the sprouts back to about three inches above the bud, remove all other sprouts when new growth starts and keep all suckers removed.

At this time you will need to put up slat supports to tie the buds to. Take slats one by two inches and twelve feet long. Nail these to the sides of the limbs so they will extend six to eight feet above. Keep buds and grafts tied up every week or ten days during the growing season.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting — Part 82

It has been our experience that budding is preferable. However, grafting in the spring and then budding in August gives you two chances the same season.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting — Part 82

This same method applies to the pecan and hickory as well as the walnut and if the work is carefully done you will surely be well paid for your work.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting — Part 82

INTEREST IN NUT GROWING IN THE INTERMOUNTAIN STATES

DR. L. D. BATCHELOR, UTAH AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

The marked increase in the interest in nut growing throughout the intermountain states is shown by the numerous inquiries on this subject which are directed to this office. There have been very few plantings of commercial orchards, but on every hand there is an interest shown in using nut trees for shade trees. The hardy varieties of Persian walnut are being planted more each year to ascertain the most promising sorts for commercial planting. Larger plantings will no doubt follow when some of these varieties have gained the confidence of the people, for one of the chief drawbacks to nut planting in the past has been the common belief that a semi-tropical climate is essential to the production of such nuts as almonds, pecans and Persian walnuts.

The Utah Agricultural Experiment Station has distributed about one hundred Persian walnut trees to coöperative planters over the state the past season. Ninety-five per cent of the trees are making a thrifty growth, while a similar planting made in 1912 gives good promise.