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Timber and Nut Yields 



Our greatest produetion of pecans comes from the bottom lands 

 along the JNIississippi River in Southeast Missouri. The main shipping 

 points being Ste. Genevieve, St. Mary's, Menfro, Caruthersville and 

 Hornersville. Pecans are also found in the Mississippi River bottom 

 from St. Charles to Hannibal and in the Missouri and tributary river 

 bottom lands from St. Louis to St. Joseph. 



According to the United States census for 1920 Missouri has 107 

 million board feet of black walnut lumber, ranking first among the 

 States of the Union. 



In 1910 Missouri farms were growing 1060 pecan trees, while in 

 1920 more than 2000 farms were growing them, representing an in- 

 crease of 47 per cent in ten years. 



The bearing pecan trees in 1910 were listed at i-9,000 and the 

 non-bearing at 7,000, while in 1920 the number of bearing trees were 

 90,000 and non-bearing 35,000, which gives us an increase of 11,000 

 bearing trees and 28,000 non-bearing trees in a ten year period. 



Our pecan production in 1909 was 1 417,000 pounds, while in 1919 

 it had risen to 550,000 pounds. 



In 1 910 the total black walnut production was 3,000,000 pounds. 

 For more recent production, figures are not available but since there 

 has been a great revival of interest in the production of this nut, a sub- 

 stantial increase has undoubtedly been made. 



English walnuts were growing on 86 farms in 1910 with trees 

 numbering 1214, while in 1920 only 34 farms reported English wal- 

 nuts and the total number of trees were reduced to 321. This shows 

 a marked decrease, less than lialf, in the number of farms growing 

 English walnuts as well as about a 73 per cent decrease in number of 

 trees. This is as it should be because the growing of English walnuts 

 in Missouri is hazardous on account of the severity of our winters and 

 only now and then do we find trees bearing nuts. 



Nut Investigation of the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station 



The Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station, at Columbia, is 

 growing on the experimental fruit farms, practically all of the named 

 varieties of the black walnuts, hickories, and pecans adapted to Missouri 



