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Show PLANTING NUT TREES IN OGDEN. 0:i ten acres of land west of thp Smith Mattress factory on Canyon l!oid. the Eccles estate is planting fruit trees and at least one acre is to be placed in nut-bearing trees. In-' eluding the English walnut, the chestnut, chest-nut, pecan and filberts The planting of nut trees has I been ndvocatPd by The Standard, and a number of wHI written articles have been contributed to this paper on tliat subject, including one from tV !ocal headquarters of the forest servicp giving review of the success suc-cess met with in and around Ogden by those who, in a limited ay and without system, have set out nut, tree-, . Those who have investigated, claim thr.t in Ogden's soil and climate cer-tain cer-tain nut trees wU thrive, and this J being true, our home owners should plant those trees to serve tho double dou-ble purpose of supplying shade and ! i.uts. In the country districts, each j 3 ear the water courses should be llnd with more of these trees Tho experiment now being carried on by the Eccles estate on the ten-acre ten-acre tract will be watched with considerable con-siderable interest. |