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planted in the hills failed to come up. If you want an orchard of three hun- 

 dred Pecan trees, you should plant one hundred each year for three years, and 

 then you would have a crop every year. As some trees will not bear each year, 

 others would. 



Nuts should not be planted more than three inches deep. If the planting 

 is delayed until February, which is a very good time to plant, the nuts should 

 be soaked in water eight or ten days so as to soften the shell before planting. 



We wish to add that the demand for fruits and nuts cannot be supplied by 

 a great deal, therefore we need not have any fears of glutting the market. No, 

 not for generations to come. An orchard of Pecans of one thousand trees, say 

 twenty years old, in our opinion, would yield more clear profit than any cotton 

 farm in North Georgia. 



Be sure, if you set an orchard, to secure large size, thin shell nuts, and 

 plant on good strong land, and then cultivate them as well or better than you do 

 an apple tree. When planted thirty-six or forty feet apart, the land will yield 

 the crops as it has done heretofore, and in ten years the trees will bear nuts to 

 profit. The land can then be set in clover and grasses. So there can be no 

 loss to the owner. 



THE PECAN IN MISSOURI. 

 S. Miller, Montgomery County, Mo. 



That there are valuable varieties of this nut in the North we can testify 

 from observation and experience. Those from Texas and Louisiana have been 

 tried here and found tender; but we have them here of a large size and of 

 excellent quality. Trees grown to an enormous size, near one hundred feet 

 high, and over two feet in diameter, are common on our Missouri bottoms; and 

 a grove of fifty tree, which the pioneer had sense enough to let stand, is a very 

 profitable piece of land. 



I know of one such about six miles from here, from which the owner 

 realized more money one year than from the rest of his farm. I paid him eight 

 dollars for part of the yield of one tree that season. The trees are scattered 

 over several acres, and he farms the land nearly the same as that which is clear 

 raises wheat and corn. To go through this Pecan orchard and examine the 

 difference in the nuts was quite a treat and curiosity. There are not any two 

 exactly alike; some long and thin, pointed at both ends, others short and 

 nearly round. The surface of some is rough, while others are quite smooth. 

 The same difference is found in their flavor, and the amount of meat and 

 quality of what is in the shell. Some shells are pretty hard, with thick lining 

 partitions, while others are so thin that they can be crushed with the hand. 

 Those large ones that I bought were packed in sand in a box with holes in th 



