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About ten years ago, I became interested ii? the propagation and 

 intensive cultivation of nuts. I first became interested in paper shell 

 pecans in the South. I developed an orchard at Albany, Georgia, 

 where I now have a fine orchard with a good crop of nuts this year. 

 I, also, have a combination orchard at Silver Hill, Alabamai, of jjaper 

 shell pecans and Satsuma oranges, with a fair crop of each this year. 



Pecans 



In the year 1918, I purchased an old run-down farm of forty 

 acres four miles west of INlarion on State Highway Route 13, and 

 named it Frunut Gardens as I determined to experiment here in all 

 kinds of fruits and nuts — hence the name. I shall say nothing about 

 the fruit, except to say that I have all kinds of fruits that are adaptable 

 to this climate growing. I first set five acres in pecans in 1919 from 

 a small nursery of my own in the Northern varieties of Butterick, Posey, 

 Busseron, Green River, and a few of other varieties. The trees are 

 now five years old and have made a fine growth. They have bloomed 

 for the last two years but have set no nuts. I then planted fifteen 

 acres to nuts where the permanent trees are to be and have been 

 budding them since as they got large enough. I use the ring bud 

 method and have some very fine specimens of these young budded 

 trees. I also budded some McAlister Hicans, which is a cross be- 

 tween a hickory and a pecan. These trees are making a fine growth, 

 but have set no nuts as yet. 



When I first commenced at Frunut Gardens, I limed it with four 

 tons per acre of lime dust and sowed it in sweet clover and let it grow 

 for two years when it reached a height of eight feet. I then turned 

 this all under. Since then I have been sowing it to cow peas and 

 soy beans and turning them under until the soil is now in a high state 

 of fertility. I have also spread 'barnyard manure around each tree 

 for the last three years each winter. Last spring, I gave to each older 

 tree twenty pounds of a mixed fertilizer in the following proportions: 



1200 pounds of 16% Acid Phosphate. 

 250 pounds of Nitrate of Potash. 

 300 pounds of Tankage. 



I have had considerable trouble with bud worms, limb girdlers and 

 caterpillars. There is no relief so far as I know from the two former 

 pests. For the latter, I spray with lime sulphur reinforced with 



