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ten acres on good soil and give it the best of care, than to have five 

 hundred on indifferent soil with indifl'erent care. 



Tlie results from pecan growing have been disappointing to some. 

 When we started ijlanting orchards eighteen years ago we did not 

 know mucli about it. All we knew was what a man here and there 

 told us. But he had not kej^t accurate records. ]\Iy experience has 

 been that I have not had any orchard that has p.iid commercially under 

 ten years. However, if I were planting an orchard today, I would 

 use those varieties that produce early crops, I mean in five or six 

 or seven years, and: heavy crops, heavier than any of the old standard 

 varieties that were planted seventeen or eighteen years ago. It is 

 not the highest grade pecan that pays the best. It is the cheaper grades 

 that have been the most profitable. And I think that in place of 

 sticking to the higher g'rade of pecans, like the Schley and Pabst we 

 are going to plant more of the varieties that bear younger, even though 

 the nuts are not so large, such as Moneymaker and Success and Moore 

 and Waukegan, and even though the quality is not so good. I have 

 some trees budded three years ago with the Moore variety whose tops 

 are breaking. I would plant a considerable percentage with these 

 varieties that are early and heavy bearers. There is a great demand 

 for a medium price nut. The chain stores say they cannot handle a 

 init that costs more than 3()c. We cannot afford to sell the Stuart, or 

 any variety like that, for 30c but if we had these cheap varieties we 

 could aff'ord to sell thousands of pounds at that price. 



