Mr. Muecke, of Aurora, planted a dozen walnuts from his father's estate in Germany; they made a splendid growth, and at six years bore from 500 to 800 nuts to a tree.
Mr. Stober, of Carson Heights, planted nuts from Germany with satisfactory results.
Mrs. Herman Ankeny, of New Era, has seven young trees that in 1907 netted her $15 a tree.
Here is a Santa Barbara soft-shell on the lawn of Mr. E. C. Apperson, in McMinnville, which at the age of eight years bore 32 pounds of walnuts. It stood the frosts and winter of 1908-'09 and bears every year; it is now 11 years old, 12 inches in diameter and has a branch spread of 40 feet.
