Evening capital news., April 12, 1916, Page 7, Image 7

About Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927

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English Walnut Trees
This is an Expensive Advertisement to Sell Trees but I believe that
This 'Ad' Will Be Cheaper Than a Law Suit
against a PROMOTER who ordered enough of these ex
pensive trees to plant a large Commercial Nut Orchard
near Payette. His signed contract with me was that he
was to pay cash, but when the trees arrived he also ar
rived from the east and asked for time to pay—that's
nerve. I offered him time if he could give me bankable
paper or some equally good guarantee of payment, and
this he could not do. That's nerve again. Then I told
him that if he did not make good his contract with me,
that I stood to loose a large amount invested in his order.
Then he said, "Why would you not rather have my note
than to lose on the trees"—that's not nerve, its undiluted
gall; for if the local bankers could not take his note, I
cant, and I am not collecting autographs. Then, I replied,
what would guarantee the note? —and this question gave
him the opportunity he was seeking, and he offered to
secure the note by giving me some stock in a Rural
Credit Association that he was PROMOTING. That's
what I call a mixture of nerve, gall and ingenuity gone
wrong, and especially after the U. S. Department of Ag
riculture has issued a warning against the Rural Credit
Tricksters. This Tyrant (and this almost spells his name
and his initial is 'H\ and tnat stands for the destination
A prominent Boise business man gave me a good defini
tion of a certain type of a PROMOTER and I want
you to get it. "A PROMOTER is a thief who sells
something for nothing to a man who gets nothing for
something." This party, I am now reliably informed,
owes merchants of a nearby town some thousands of
dollars,and much of it for about 3 years, and now he comes
to Boise to add other victims to his list. This party op
erates from a large city in Minnesota, and from the cor
respondence and letter heads, one would be impressed
with his dignity and his financial responsibility. But to
meet the man one is impressed by the combination of
his large physique, great air of importance and the array of
emblems, while in reality he desecrates the noble emblems
he wears. I almost fell a victim to his hypnotic influ
ence, but I kept in mind to "hold fast to that which is
good", and I have the trees yet, and you will agree with
me that the trees are worth something and his note nothing.
And you will agree with me that one cannot get at this type of a man by the usual legal procedure
and some other course is necessary and I choose this method. You will also agree with me that
this ad is cheaper than a law suit because if I win the suit I would only get a judgment not even
payable at the great judgment day. In the meantime I am emphatically reminded that bills are
payable now and so I am going to sacrifice the profit on these trees and give to you instead of this
party the benefit of my loss.
I WANT THIS AD TO DO SEVERAL THINGS, viz.: To advertise this type of a man;
sell the nut trees and save me some loss; save other business men of Southern Idaho some loss;
advise others against fake Rural Credit Stock Schemes, of which the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture
warns us, and suggest that it is an indictment of American intelligence that we have no laws
among the multiplicity of laws such as will reach in a feasablé way this type of a fore-flusher who
by his one generous (fake) order for expensive nut trees threatens the loss of an entire season's
efforts. His signed contract was to pay cash and this he knew he could not do when ordering as
he was owing thousands of dollars to other merchants and I did not know it, but now that I am well
impressed with the fact I desire to warn others.
toward which his type is headii
MOTE his scheme to sell Rural
stock is O. K. he is not, and the Association should not
permit him as official head to contaminate a good cause.
He showed me some letters of his ability to PROMOTE
thinking that I could confuse this for his ability to pay.
I continues to PRO
redit Stock. If this
You have been interested in my articles about the many English Walnut Trees thriving in
Idaho and my endeavor to encourage this as a valuable industry for Idaho . I have men
tioned at other times the several places where the trees are growing and the commercial acreage now being planted as
a result of these efforts . But a review of some of the facts wiil be of interest.
Some of the English walnuts growing here in Boise are about
50 years old and producing yields of about fifteen bushels per
tree. Others are about 22 years old and yielding about ten bush
els per tree last season. (30 pounds per bushel).
If you are interested in getting a good shade, ornamental and
utility tree and one that requires no care here as to spraying and
which fruit is easily kept and contains three times more nourish
ment than a beefsteak considering the equal weight of each, then
select an English walnut tree and grow some of the meat you eat.
I shall book all orders as received and ship out the orders in
their turn until all the trees are sold and which will not be long.
When trees are all sold the money will be promptly refunded to
those whose order could not be filled.
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These grafted trees I am now offering will bear in four years,
but the seedling trees that are usually sold do not bear till they
are very much older than this, and some not until fifteen years
of age.
As a shade and ornamental tree there is no better. It is a
rapid growing tree after the first year and one tree I know made
a growth of 30 feet tall and 30 feet spread at the eighth season,
and the same season bore two bushels of nuts of the very best
quality.
The special root on which these trees are grafted causes them
to make a rapid growth, but many grafted trees are on a root that
makes a slowly growing tree.
The trees I am offering are very hardy and will stand a tem
perature of 30 degrees below zero. The special advantage of this
variety I am offering is that it ü the latest of all the walnuts to
bloom in the spring and much later than all of our deciduous fruit
trees and hence escapes the late spring frosts and will bear an
nually. The nut is mature by September 15th and drops out of
the burr by October 1st.
This variety should be tested out in the higher altitudes of
Idaho. In Utah the English walnut has been growing for some
years and at higher altitudes than much of the agricultural sec
tions of Idaho.
THE SCHEDULE OF PRICES IS AS FOLLOWS:
$1.25 each
.$1.10 each
.$1.00 each
Mt
One tree.
Lots of over 10 trees
Lots of 25.
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At these prices I cannot spend time in correspondence unless
for large orders, and I have stated all the necessary facts in this
ad. For this reason I suggest that you fill out the attached cou
pon and mail to me at once.
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The trees in this photo represent the actual size of the trees I am now of
fering lor sale. They are trees in realit. .
J. F. Littooy, Boise, Idaho.
Box 1408.
Enclosed please lind
My ten-acre tract of English walnuts bore some the second
year after planting. I mention this merely to show how early the
high grade grafted trees begin to bear.
For commercial planting the trees should be at least 40 feet
apart and this makes 27 trees to the acre. With the yields I have
mentioned per tree and those nuts selling at wholesale at 15c per
pound, you can easily figure what this means in revenue per acre
as compared with other farm and fruit crops.
I am going to sell these trees at practically the cost of ordi
nary shade trees and this will be the first time that Idaho planters
are afforded an opportunity to get such high grade nut trees so
cheap. The eastern nurseries charge from $2.00 to $3.00 each for
grafted trees on a root that makes a slow growing tree and send
you a walnut tree that is about two to three feet tall, while the
trees I am now offering are eight feet tall and on a root that
makes a rapidly growing tree and the price is less than half of
what the eastern nurseries charge.
for
English
each. Price net f. o. b. Boise, Idaho.
These walnuts I am offering are of the soft shell variety and
that bears a very large nut of the very best quality.
The leaves hang well to the tree till the first frost and then
all of them drop at practically the same time, hence the advantage
of being able to clean up the leaves at one operation instead of
the numerous operations to clean up the fallen leaves of most of
the shade trees. The leaves falling all at one time is an advantage
to the fruit in that all of the energy of the tree goes to the rapid
maturing of the nuts.
Many have the mysterious notion that the growing of the
English walnut requires a citrus climate, and this is true of some
varieties, but even in California the tender varieties are being dis
carded for the hardy and better type of tree, and which kind I am
now offering.
walnut trees at
Name
P. O. Address
R. D. No.
R. R. Station
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J. F. Littooy , Boise , Idaho
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