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BETTER FRUIT 



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down deep where they will have 

 greater pasturage and greater resist- 

 ance. I would recommend that noth- 

 ing less than four-inch tile be used and 

 that they be put down three and a half 

 to four feet. The idea of putting in 

 nothing less than four-inch tile is to 

 allow a better circulation of air through 

 these mains. 



In conclusion I will say that in taking 

 care of a prune orchard there are prob- 

 lems to meet and overcome. There 

 cannot be any set rules to follow be- 

 cause of the variation in the climatic 

 conditions from year to year, the vari- 

 ation in the soil of different orchards, 

 as for instance, the cultivation of an 

 orchard where the soil was of a heavy 

 clay mixture. By using good, sound 

 judgment mixed with plenty of reason- 

 ing power, and then by watching some- 

 one who has made a success of growing 

 an orchard, there is no reason why one 

 should not succeed. 



Pecan Growing Fast Developing 



Hundreds of thousands of chestnut 

 trees in the Eastern states have been 

 killed by blight in recent years and the 

 -American production of nuts is said to 

 be showing a tremendous reduction. In 

 one recent year the importation of for- 

 eign nuts into the United States passed 

 the ?20,000,000 mark and the influx is 

 likely to continue until domestic pro- 

 duction is heavily increased. The so- 

 called Engli.sh walnut of California and 

 Oregon is in increasing supply, and 

 walnut groves in those states are yield- 

 ing splendid returns. However, the nut 

 that is in highest favor just now is the 

 thin hulled or paper shelled pecan, 

 grown in many places in the lower 

 south and showing its highest develop- 

 ment in South Georgia. 



The paper shell pecan is of compara- 

 tively recent importance in the market, 

 but returns of -¥400,000 for the South 

 Georgia crop of 1919 indicate rapid in- 

 crease in production although there are 

 hundreds of acres in trees too young to 

 bear a crop. 



Government authorities underwrite 

 the pecan as a sturdy tree, subject to 

 tew pests and diseases and bearing very 

 heavy crops when properly cultivated. 

 A few bearing groves in South Georgia 

 have sold at $1,000 the acre as against 

 $3,000 for walnut groves in California, 

 but raw land suitable for pecans in 

 South Georgia is very cheap as com- 

 pared with virgin land in California. 



The pecan does best on land with a 

 good clay subsoil, a subsoil so stiff, in 

 fact, as to require blasting the tree 

 hole for planting out. On lighter soil 

 the pecan makes a good growth but 

 does not fill out the nuts so well nor 

 bear so heavily. A careful survey of 

 the growing trees in South Georgia in- 

 dicates that the largest returns are from 

 trees set in holes blasted in the clay 

 subsoil. 



The pecan comes into bearing about 

 the eighth year and continues to grow 

 indefinitely like the hickory, to which 

 species it belongs. In South Georgia 

 groves, field crops are grown between 

 the trees until they get so large as to 

 completely shade the ground. 



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