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requirements of the consuming public. Upon this question also have 

 been written many thousands of pages which, when all summed up, 

 simply amounts to this: get the best varieties that will bear in your 

 particular locality. This can be determined to some extent by what 

 native trees are growing in your particular locality, although not en- 

 tirely so. In many sections of the country, there are no native pecan 

 trees, and yet these trees flourish very successfully when brought 

 from some other section. On this point the prospective planter of 

 commercial orchards should seek the best advice obtainable. 



The third requirement for a commercial nut orchard is cultivation 

 and attention. ]\Iany of the hut trees will grow and bear without any 

 attention whatsoever, but they will take your time for it. I have seen 

 wild pecan trees that were not over twelve or fifteen feet high at 

 twenty-five years of age. I have seen cultivated trees larger than 

 that at eight years of age. A tree responds to care and cultivation 

 the same as corn or potatoes or any other of the cultivated crops. The 

 lack of cultivation is just as detrimental to them as to these crops. 

 Young pecan trees should be hoed five or six times each summer, and 

 when they get to be four to seven years of age, there ought to be a 

 constant, clean cultivation, from early spring until late in the summer, 

 followed by a good cover crop to be turned under the following spring 

 at the beginning of the eultivating period. They should also be given 

 plenty of good, commercial fertilizer. 



If the prospective planter of commercial init orchard has enough 

 faith and hope and follows the suggestions given above, he will not 

 be dependent upon charity in his old age. 



Dh. Joruan : I am interested as an amateur pecan grower, and I 

 would like to ask what varieties will be of most profit, commercially, 

 that can be grown with a reasonable hope of success in the northern 

 latitude. 



Mh. Littlb^page : Tlu' (juestion is a very dirt"iculi one to answer, 

 but the important thing is to stick to the kind that grows the best in 

 your locality. The Posey is grown in Lancaster County, Pa. The 

 parent Posey tree grows in Indiana, and I had the pleasure of naming 

 it. That tree is a good bearer, and it is the thinnest-shelled northern- 

 grown pecan with which I am familiar. It is a very Ibeautifu] nut, 

 with the exception that frequently one side of the kernel will not fill 

 out as it does on the other sides. It is not defective, but simply 

 deficient. It will have one full sized kernel but it is not perfect in 



